In the 2017 set of French Antarctic, the ship Geelvinck with a picture of Willem de Vlamingh. The ship was named after one of the 17 administrators of the Dutch East India Company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Vlamingh
In 1696 Willem de Vlamingh commanded the rescue mission to Australia's west coast to look for survivors of the Ridderschap van Holland that had gone missing two years earlier, and had admiral Sir James Couper on board. There were three ships under his command: the frigate Geelvink, captained by de Vlamingh himself; the Nijptang, under Captain Gerrit Collaert; and the galiot Weseltje, under Captain Cornelis de Vlamingh, son of Willem de Vlamingh. The expedition departed Texel 'stricly incognito' on 3 May 1696 and, because of the Nine Years' War with France, sailed around the coast of Scotland to Tristan de Cunha. Early September the three ships arrived at Cape of Good Hope, where they stayed for seven weeks because of scurvy among the crew. (There Cornelis de Vlamingh took command after Laurens T. Zeeman died). On 27 October they left, using the Brouwer Route on the Indian Ocean route from the African Cape of Good Hope to the Dutch East Indies. On their way east they checked Île Saint-Paul and Île Amsterdam, but no wreckage or survivors were found. On 5 December they sailed on.
http://www.vochistory.org.au/vlamingh.html
The new ship to be built, a comfortable frigate of 110 -112 feet long, would serve as flagship of the Commander - Willem de Vlamingh. It was named Geelvinck after Joan Geelvinck, member of the Board.
The Muster Register, which kept a record of all departing Company ships, noted that Geelvinck had 130 people on board, Nijptang 50 and Wezeltje 14.
http://www.ageofsail.net/aosshipa.asp
Geelvinck: Three masted frigate-yacht; Length: 111 voet 7 duim; Beam: 29 voet 7 duim; Hold: 11 voet 5.5 duim; 380 tons; Crew: 120; VOC-wharf Amsterdam, Netherlands; 1696
Under the command of Willem de Vlamingh, Geelvinck was the lead vessel in a three ship expedition in 1696 (Geelvinck, Wezel and Nijptang). The expedition was tasked with charting the west-coast of Australia, and to look for survivors of t'Ridderschap van Holland, which had dissappeared in 1694, and Vergulde Draeck, lost 40 years earlier.
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Re: Geelvinck
The GEELVINK or also given as GEELVINCK was built in 1696 on the VOC yard in Amsterdam for the Camber of the VOC of Amsterdam.
Tonnage 190 last (380 ton). Dim. 111.7 x 29.7 x 11.5½Ft.
Crew 100 – 130.
Description
De GEELVINK did belong to the small charter frigates, also called frigate yachts. According to Day register Batavia in which she is given as a yacht.
The newly built GEELVINK, named after Joan Geelvinck, a member of the Heren XVII College, was part of the expedition of Willem de Vlamingh (skipper aboard the GEELVINK) to Zuidland in 1696, together with the WEZEL (weasel) and NIJPTANG (pincer). They had to search for survivors of the RIDDERSCHAP VAN HOLLAND (Knighthood of Holland) (disappeared in 1694) and even of the VERGULDE DRAAK (Gilt Dragon) (wrecked on the coast of Western Australia in 1656). The west coast also had to be properly surveyed.
De GEELVINK was laid up in Batavia on March 3, 1711 (source: Gen. Missives dated November 30, 1711 and Marginalia).
On April 7, 1711, the GEELVINK was sold for 550 Rijksdaalders in Batavia.
Her maiden voyage was when she sailed from Texel on 03 May 1696 via the Cape of Good Hope to Batavia.
She made then some coastal voyages in the Dutch East Indies.
21 March 1700 she sailed from Batavia to Texel where she arrived on 04 August 1700.
05 June 1701 she sailed again from Texel to Batavia where she arrived on 22 December 1701. During this voyage, she stayed for 6 weeks at the Cape of Good Hope waiting for messages.
05 February 1702 sailed from Batavia to Texel arriving there on 29 August 1702.
12 January 1704 she sailed from Texel and arrived Batavia on 09 November 1704.
She stayed then in the Dutch East Indies till she was sold in 1711.
Her fate is not known.
More on the ship her maiden voyage and Willem de Vlaming is given on http://www.vochistory.org.au/vlamingh.html
Source: https://www.vocsite.nl/schepen/detail.html?id=10355
Tonnage 190 last (380 ton). Dim. 111.7 x 29.7 x 11.5½Ft.
Crew 100 – 130.
Description
De GEELVINK did belong to the small charter frigates, also called frigate yachts. According to Day register Batavia in which she is given as a yacht.
The newly built GEELVINK, named after Joan Geelvinck, a member of the Heren XVII College, was part of the expedition of Willem de Vlamingh (skipper aboard the GEELVINK) to Zuidland in 1696, together with the WEZEL (weasel) and NIJPTANG (pincer). They had to search for survivors of the RIDDERSCHAP VAN HOLLAND (Knighthood of Holland) (disappeared in 1694) and even of the VERGULDE DRAAK (Gilt Dragon) (wrecked on the coast of Western Australia in 1656). The west coast also had to be properly surveyed.
De GEELVINK was laid up in Batavia on March 3, 1711 (source: Gen. Missives dated November 30, 1711 and Marginalia).
On April 7, 1711, the GEELVINK was sold for 550 Rijksdaalders in Batavia.
Her maiden voyage was when she sailed from Texel on 03 May 1696 via the Cape of Good Hope to Batavia.
She made then some coastal voyages in the Dutch East Indies.
21 March 1700 she sailed from Batavia to Texel where she arrived on 04 August 1700.
05 June 1701 she sailed again from Texel to Batavia where she arrived on 22 December 1701. During this voyage, she stayed for 6 weeks at the Cape of Good Hope waiting for messages.
05 February 1702 sailed from Batavia to Texel arriving there on 29 August 1702.
12 January 1704 she sailed from Texel and arrived Batavia on 09 November 1704.
She stayed then in the Dutch East Indies till she was sold in 1711.
Her fate is not known.
More on the ship her maiden voyage and Willem de Vlaming is given on http://www.vochistory.org.au/vlamingh.html
Source: https://www.vocsite.nl/schepen/detail.html?id=10355