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MAURITIUS

Post by shipstamps » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:42 pm


The stamp or label issued by Paraguay in 1972 gives that the vessel depict on 0.75G is the SANTA MARIA of Columbus, but according Navicula the ship depict is much younger, and they give she is the MAURITIUS of the Dutch East India Co., and the design is made after the painting of H.C.Vroom with small alternations on sails and rigging, also the flags are different.
The painting is in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam and is on line at the following URL.
http://cf.hum.uva.nl/galle/images/drawi ... 00x364.jpg
Which shows the MAURITIUS of the VOC after her return from the East Indies at Amsterdam on 17 September 1599. She is the vessel on the left of the painting, and looks the same as on the stamp.

MAURITIUS was built on a yard in Amsterdam in 1594 for the Compagnie van Verre at Amsterdam.
She took part in the first voyage to the East Indies together with the HOLLANDIA, AMSTERDAM en DUYFKEN under command of Cornelis de Houtman.
Tonnage of the MAURITIUS were 460 tons, dim.?
These four ships sailed from Texel on 02-April 1595 for Engano in the East Indies; the MAURITIUS was under command of Jan Janz Molenaar with on board 85 persons.
06 June 1596 she arrived at Engano under command of Hendrik Jansz, who was the successor of Molenaar after he died on 25 December 1596.

25 February 1597 she sailed from Bali under command of Hendrik Jansz and arrived at Texel on 11 August 1597.

She took also part in the Second Fleet to the East Indies of the Oude Compagnie, the latter VOC.
01 May 1598 she sailed from Texel under command of Govert Jansz. With on board 95 persons.
26 November 1598 arrived at Bantam, East Indies.
12 January 1599 sailed from Bantam under command of Govert Jansz and via St Helena arrived Texel 19 July 1599.

21 December 1599 sailed from Texel under command of Govert Janzs with on board 101 persons.
01 September 1600 arrived at Bantam.
14 January 1601 sailed from Bantam under command of Govert Jansz and arrived in the Netherlands in September 1601.

Thereafter she disappeared in history, most probably not more seaworthy and broken up.

Paraquay 1972 75G sg?, scott 1432

Souirce: Navicula http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/DAS/search

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Re: MAURITIUS

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Mar 15, 2013 1:49 am

The stamp depicts a combination of two cards, namely a sea-chart and a profile card into a rectangle (right)
The flagship MAURITIUS on which Cornelis de Houtman stayed is seen sailing in Bantam Bay on West Java, which is surrounded by green mountains on different height.
Behind the ship is part of a wind-rose of a compass, with the compass lines visible. It ship sails literally on the compass and the compass points. In reality this is also done in unknown waters in a metaphohorical sense.
In the rectangle on the left is a detail of the Table Mountain at Cape of Good Hope placed.

Netherland 1996 80c sg1815, scott944
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Fleet_of_Cornelis_de_Houtman.jpg
MVC01_NVPH-1696_X.jpg

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