Het 'Wapen van Hoorn' (The Hoorn coat of arms) departed from Texel on June 20, 1749, bound for Batavia, arriving there on March 22, 1750.

She departed Ceylon on November 23, 1750, for her homeward voyage with a cargo for the VOC Chamber of Zeeland. There were 99 people on board. The vessel had a difficult journey home. In February 1751, the ship lost her masts in a storm off Cape Agulhas, South Africa. The ship subsequently failed to arrive at her usual stopover, the Cape Colony (Cape Town).

The masts were only repaired in San Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (May 1751). The ship then continued on to Europe. Off La Coruña (Galicia, Spain), the crew and skipper abandoned the ship on January 27 because it was leaking heavily and taking on increasing amounts of water. 35 to 36 men, including the skipper, were able to transfer to the Dutch three-master galliot 'Harder' that was nearby.

Five sick people were left behind on the still-floating ship. Nine days later, the wreck ran aground on the rocks near San Cibrao and was torn apart by the waves.

Juan Bautista Artamonís, captain of the ship Nuestra Señora de Begoña from Biscay, found the ship and boarded it. He found one survivor but couldn't hear him. He reported to the authorities the next day:

That he had seen a large ship with approximately 50 guns, three miles out to sea north-south, off the island of San Ciprián de Burela, with all its masts dismasted except the bowsprit. The man was subsequently rescued and questioned.

Johan Veltman's Story in Spanish Archives
A survivor's statement was found in the Simancas archives. His name was Johan Veltman from Amsterdam.

He stated that they left Ceylon on November 30, 1750, with a cargo of pepper, cinnamon, coffee, and canvas on the ship Wapen van Hoorn, skippered by Jacob Greve (Jacob Ciojuver in the archive document) and carrying 99 men and twenty-eight cannons:

To re-mast, after having lowered it due to the bad weather they had encountered, had forced them to arrive at the port of San Salvador on the coast of Brazil. There, having re-masted and without loading or unloading anything, they continued their voyage against a headwind until the end of last month. When the captain, officers, and others noticed the ship taking on water and spotted another Dutch ship, they decided to board it two or three times with the sloop and boarded it, leaving the deponent alone with four sick men. When asked his reason for not fleeing with the others and saving himself from danger, he replied through the same interpreter that they had promised to bring the sloop back to look for him and the sick men, which they did not do.

After drifting like this for a few more days, he spotted land. He doesn't know where to put it. Yes, it was on this coast, and he had run aground on rocks with a westerly wind.

(NOTE: the word "Oost" in Dutch begins with an "O," everything points to a confusion on the interpreter's part.)
He thinks it's fourteen or fifteen miles from this sandbar. He fired two cannon shots to ensure they would come to his aid, which they immediately did with boats from a nearby harbor. Unable to moor due to the worsening weather, he tied a rope around himself and threw it to one of the boats. They then hoisted him up by the bowsprit. Shortly afterward, the ship broke up on the same rocks where the sick had already been dead for several days. Transcript from Spanish. (Transcription from Spanish source Archivo Simancas, Secretaria de Marina 504, I-IV)

Built: yard in Hoorn, 1748
Length: 136

• Huygens ING.
  DAS 7350.1.
• NL-HaNA_1.04.02_4934_0096.
• NA 1.04.01.01. 551, Lijst van alle zoodanige Schepen.
• Archive Simancas.
  Secretaria de marina.
  504, I-IV.
• Soldijboek Wapen van Hoorn.