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HEEMSTEDE

Post by shipstamps » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:25 pm


The vessel depict on this stamps of Tristan da Cunha is the Dutch flute HEEMSTEDE, named after the place Heemstede in the Dutch Province Noord Holland.
Built 1639/40 on the yard of the Verenigde Oostindische Company (VOC) in Amsterdam, for the Chamber of the VOC of Amsterdam. In Dutch sources mostly given as a yacht.
Tonnage 400 ton.

She sailed on her first voyage to the East Indies from Texel roads on 03 May 1640 with on board 64 persons, during the voyage one person died, arrived 17 December 1640 at Batavia.

01 February 1641 she sailed from Batavia, with on board 45 persons, sailed from Capetown on 22 April 1641, and arrived the same year at Amsterdam, according her loading manifest she carried a cargo worth 69.679 Dutch guilders for the Chamber of the VOC of Amsterdam. She made the voyage from the East Indies to the Netherlands, alone.

14 January 1642 she left Texel road under command of skipper Claes Geritsz(oon) Bierenbroodspot, according to Aanwijzingen 1891/19e was her sailing date 07 March 1642, she returned to Texel and sailed out again on 30 September 1642. Then having lost its masts back to Texel in October, sailing again on 02 November 1642, with on board 88 persons
During this voyage some crew of the HEEMSTEDE made the first recorded landing on Tristan da Cunha, where they replenished their supplies with fresh fish, seals and penguins, and took in fresh water.
A wooden tablet was left behind with the following inscription:
“Today, February 17, 1643 from the Dutch flute HEEMSTEDE, Claes Gerritsz. Bierenbroodspot from Hoorn (most probably coming from the Dutch town Hoorn), and Jan Coertsen van den Broec, landed here.”

The crew of theDutch galliot NACHTGLAS (Nightglass) observed the tablet in 1656 near a watering place (most probably Falmouth Bay.)

The HEEMSTEDE sailed on to Batavia where she arrived on 19 May 1643 with on board 54 persons and 29 soldiers. During the voyage 5 persons died.

Thereafter HEEMSTEDE stayed in the Indies and was burnt in Bengal on 09 October 1650.

On Tristan da Cunha 1965 1½d sg73, scott 73. 1971 15p on 1½d sg146. 1983 4p sg 351.

Source: http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/DAS click on zoeken. The Early History of Tristan da Cunha on line.

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