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82-406: A castaway is a person cast adrift or ashore. Castaway or Cast Away may also refer to: Castaway The provisions and resources available to castaways may allow them to live on the island until other people arrive to take them off the island. However, such rescue missions may never happen if the person is not known to still be alive, if the fact that they are missing is unknown, or if

164-495: A Dutch vessel belonging to the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC), Vergulde Draeck , struck a reef off Ledge Point on the central west coast of Western Australia , about 5 kilometres from shore, and approximately 90 kilometres north of where Perth now stands. At least 75 individuals made it to shore, where they camped. Seven men departed in a boat, making for Batavia, now known as Jakarta, at

246-585: A cabin boy, Jan Pelgrom de Bye, who were considered only minor offenders, were marooned on mainland Australia , and were never heard of again. This made them the first Europeans to have permanently lived on the Australian continent. This location is now thought to be Wittecarra Creek near Kalbarri , Western Australia, though another suggestion is nearby Port Gregory . The rest of Cornelisz' henchmen were taken to Batavia for trial. Five were hanged, while several others were flogged, keelhauled or dropped from

328-402: A channel between a reef and the coast, finding an opening around midday at a latitude guessed to be about 23 degrees south where they were able to land, and water was found. The group spent the night on land. Pelsaert commented on the vast number of termite mounds in the vicinity and the plague of flies that afflicted them. Pelsaert stated that they continued north with the intention of finding

410-575: A diary that was found in January 1726 by British mariners who brought the diary back to Britain. The diary was rewritten and published a number of times. In 2002, the full truth of the story was disclosed in a book by Dutch historian Michiel Koolbergen (1953–2002), the first to mention Hasenbosch by name. Before that time, the castaway's name had not been known. The story is available in English as A Dutch Castaway on Ascension Island in 1725 . In 1812,

492-419: A double skin of oak structural planking. This was sheathed with a double layer of pine which incorporated tar and animal hair, together with closely spaced iron nails. The pine layer was intended to resist teredo worm . The length to beam ratio of Batavia was 4.4:1. This made her narrower than preceding VOC ships. A 1619 VOC ship-building charter gives a length to beam ratio of 3.9:1. It is suggested that there

574-496: A few crew members, and some passengers left the wreck site in a nine-metre (30 ft) longboat in search of drinking water. After an unsuccessful search for water on the mainland, they left the other survivors and headed north in a danger-fraught voyage to the city of Batavia, Dutch East Indies , the ship's namesake, to seek rescue. En route the crew made further forays onto the mainland in search of fresh water. In his journal, Pelsaert stated that on 15 June 1629, they sailed through

656-618: A few days but he left behind a knife, gunpowder, tobacco, and more. Ashton was finally rescued by the Diamond , a ship from Salem, Massachusetts . The Zuytdorp departed from the Cape of Good Hope on 22 April 1712 with at least 200 to 250 people on board, including women and children, and disappeared. It is now thought to have struck the Zuytdorp Cliffs on the central coast of Western Australia in early June 1712. The first signs of

738-500: A few pounds of flour contaminated by seawater, and some rashers of bacon. Leeman, who kept a journal, rallied his crew. They found water by digging on an offshore islet, and then killed seals and dried the meat, using the skins to raise the sides of the boat. Leeman even constructed his own compass. They then set sail for Java . They made their way up the Western Australian coast, and after a voyage of 2500 km reached

820-458: A historiographic account of the events and people aboard the Batavia . Arabella Edge 's debut novel, The Company: The Story of a Murderer (2000) provided a fictionalised account of the wreck of the ship, and the aftermath. In 2012 Peter Fitzsimons released a book called Batavia discussing the events in detail and in 2017, a 60 Minutes report detailed the archaeological recovery of

902-444: A lack of authority and was therefore partly responsible for what had happened. His financial assets were seized, and he died within a year of disease. Although his journals on the matter would be published in 1647 and widely read, spreading knowledge of the dangers of the coast of Western Australia. Hayes was hailed a hero and promoted to sergeant , which increased his salary, while those who had been under his command were promoted to

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984-404: A large vessel were discovered", assumed to be Zeewijk , "on the south west point of an island", reminding them that since Zeewijk ' s crew "reported having seen a wreck of a ship on this part, there is little doubt that the remains were those of the Batavia ". In the 1950s, historian Henrietta Drake-Brockman argued, from extensive archival research, that the Batavia wreck must lie in

1066-415: A month, Pelsaert reached the general area where the shipwreck had occurred, but it took another month of searching to locate the islands again. He finally arrived at the site only to discover that a bloody massacre had taken place among the survivors, reducing their numbers by at least a hundred. Cornelisz was one of the few men who stayed on Batavia to pillage and steal. He was one of the few who survived

1148-495: A new life elsewhere, using the huge supply of trade gold and silver on board. After leaving the Cape of Good Hope , where they had stopped for supplies, Jacobsz is alleged by Pelsaert to have deliberately steered the ship off course, and away from the rest of the fleet. Jacobsz and Cornelisz had already gathered a small group of men around them and arranged an incident from which the mutiny was to ensue. This involved sexually assaulting

1230-771: A novel by Daniel Defoe published in 1719. Philip Ashton, born in Marblehead, Massachusetts , in 1702, was captured by pirates while fishing near the coast of Nova Scotia in June 1722. He managed to escape in March 1723 when the pirates' ship landed at Roatán in the Bay Islands of Honduras , hiding in the jungle until the pirates left him there. He survived for 16 months, in spite of many insects, tropical heat, and crocodiles. He had no equipment at all until he met another castaway, an Englishman. The Englishman disappeared after

1312-491: A prominent young female passenger, Lucretia Jans , in order to provoke Pelsaert into disciplining the crew. They hoped to paint his discipline as unfair and recruit more members out of sympathy. However, the woman was unable to identify her attackers. On 4 June 1629, Batavia struck Morning Reef near Beacon Island , part of the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Australia. Of the 322 aboard, most of

1394-496: A ship looking for a shelter to make repairs. A week after sailing from the Canary Islands on January 19, 1982, Steven Callahan's self-made sloop Napoleon Solo had hit an unknown object during a night storm, he managed to escape into a six man life raft , diving into the sinking boat a few times in order to get the supplies he needed for survival before cutting his raft loose. Utilising 2 solar stills (a third of which

1476-573: A small delay would fit the dates. The name "Batavia" was chosen on 29 June 1628. The leaders of the VOC pushed for the ship to be ready for the next fleet (consisting of five other ships), which was due to leave in September or October 1628. Batavia would be the flagship of this fleet. On 29 October 1628, the newly built Batavia , commissioned by the VOC, sailed from Texel in the Netherlands for

1558-405: A voluntary castaway, Selkirk was able to gather numerous provisions to help him to survive, including a musket , gunpowder , carpenter's tools , a knife, a Bible , and clothing. He survived on the island for four years and four months, building huts and hunting the plentiful wildlife before his rescue on 2 February 1709. His adventures are said to be a possible inspiration for Robinson Crusoe ,

1640-480: Is a BBC Radio 4 interview show in which the subject is invited to consider themselves as a castaway on a desert island, and then select their eight favourite records, one favourite book (in addition to The Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare), and a luxury inanimate object to occupy their time. Batavia (1628 ship) Batavia ( Dutch pronunciation: [baːˈtaːvijaː] )

1722-585: Is moored as a museum ship in Lelystad in the Netherlands. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Dutch were the major ship-builders of northern Europe, innovating both designs (e.g. the Fluyt ) and technology (the windmill driven sawmill). They did, though, use the "bottom-based" construction sequence, which uses a shell-first system for the lower part of the hull. The planks are shaped and then laid edge to edge, having

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1804-434: The Batavia ' s 341 passengers and crew made their way ashore, the rest drowning in their attempts. Her commander, Francisco Pelsaert , sailed to Batavia to get help, leaving in charge senior VOC official Jeronimus Cornelisz , unaware he had been plotting a mutiny prior to the wreck. Cornelisz tricked about twenty men under soldier Wiebbe Hayes into searching for fresh water on nearby islands, leaving them to die. With

1886-980: The Dutch East Indies , to obtain spices. Their orders were to use the Brouwer Route , like all ships of the Dutch East India Company. This involved sailing to the south of a direct course to Jakarta , but without any way of measuring longitude , it was difficult to judge when to make the turn north. A late turn gave the risk of running aground on the coast of Australia. It sailed under commander and senior merchant Francisco Pelsaert , with Ariaen Jacobsz serving as skipper. Pelsaert and Jacobsz had previously encountered each other in Dutch Suratte , when Pelsaert publicly dressed-down Jacobsz after he became drunk and insulted Pelsaert in front of other merchants. Animosity existed between

1968-750: The Marianas until he was unexpectedly found in Guam in 1526 by the flagship of the Loaísa Expedition , on its way to the Spice Islands and the second circumnavigation of the globe. Gonzalo de Vigo was the first recorded European castaway in the history of the Pacific Ocean. A French noblewoman, Marguerite de la Rocque, was marooned in 1542 on an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence , off

2050-847: The Nanina was taken over by the British crew, who left them on the island. Barnard and his party were finally rescued in November 1814. In 1829, Barnard wrote, A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Captain Charles Barnard, detailing the happenings. On January 3, 1864, the 56-ton schooner Grafton was wrecked in the north arm of Carnley Harbour, Auckland Island . The five-man crew, led by Captain Thomas Musgrave and Francois Edouard Raynal as mate, spent twenty months on

2132-487: The boatswain , Jan Evertsz, was arrested and executed for negligence and "outrageous behavior" before the loss of the ship (he was suspected to have been involved). Jacobsz was also arrested for negligence, although his culpability in the potential mutiny was not guessed by Pelsaert. Governor-General Jan Pieterszoon Coen immediately gave Pelsaert command of Sardam to rescue the other survivors, as well as to attempt to salvage riches from Batavia ' s wreck. Within

2214-543: The "river of Jacob Remmessens", identified first in 1622, but owing to the wind were unable to land. Drake-Brockman has suggested that this location is to be identified with Yardie Creek . It was not until the longboat reached the island of Nusa Kambangan in the Dutch East Indies that Pelsaert and the others found more water. The journey took 33 days, with everyone surviving. After their arrival in Batavia,

2296-436: The 68 survivors of the wreck of Vergulde Draeck along the lower central west coast of Western Australia , Upper Steersman Abraham Leeman and his boat crew of 13 from Waeckende Boey (also known as Waeckende Boeij ("Watching Buoy")) were inexplicably abandoned by the skipper of that ship, Samuel Volkersen. They were then about 180 km north of present-day Perth . Their boat was in poor condition, they had no water, just

2378-438: The Australian continent, although nothing more was heard of them. Only 122 of the original passengers made it to the port of Batavia. Associated today with "one of the worst horror stories in maritime history", Batavia has been the subject of numerous published histories. Due to its unique place in the history of European contact with Australia , the story of Batavia is sometimes offered as an alternative founding narrative to

2460-649: The Baltic, particularly oak, dates back to the early 13th century. (By the early 17th century, Dutch merchants dominated the European timber trade.) Oak from the Vistula region ceased to be used after 1643. It is possible that Dutch shipbuilding had, by then, been a cause of deforestation of the area. Batavia may have been one of two ships specified in the VOC shipbuilding charter of 29 March 1626 – normally it took 18 months to build one of these vessels, so

2542-534: The British ship Isabella , captained by George Higton, was shipwrecked off Eagle Island , one of the Falkland Islands . Most of the crew were rescued by the American sealer Nanina , commanded by Captain Charles Barnard. However, realising that they would require more provisions for the expanded number of passengers, Barnard and a few others went out in a party to retrieve more food. During his absence,

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2624-460: The Wallabi group of islands. The wreck was first sighted in 1963 by lobster fisherman David Johnson. A systematic archaeological investigation was carried out in the 1970s. Most of the excavation work was carried out over four years, starting in 1972, with an initial survey in 1971. A large amount of the surviving hull was raised and conserved. This is about 20 tons of timber, which is about 3.5% of

2706-502: The appearance of carvel construction , but are put in position before the frames are installed. The shape of the bottom of the hull is therefore derived from the shaping of the hull planks. The "bottom-based" construction sequence is the same as used on Medieval cogs and some argue that this is an older Romano-Celtic building tradition. Ships belonging to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) were generally built in

2788-536: The castaways on his voyage along the coasts of northern Australia in 1643–44 but did not sail that far south. They were not seen again by Europeans. It has been argued by Rupert Gerritsen in And Their Ghosts May Be Heard and subsequent publications that they survived and had a profound influence on local Aboriginal groups such as the Nhanda and Amangu . In the early hours of 28 April 1656

2870-433: The coast of Quebec . She was left by her near relative Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval , a nobleman privateer , as punishment for her affair with a young man on board ship. The young man joined her, as did a servant woman, both of whom later died, as did the baby de la Rocque bore. Marguerite survived by hunting wild animals and was later rescued by fishermen. She returned to France and became well known when her story

2952-651: The coast to the Eystribyggð settlement of Erik the Red on the southwest coast of Greenland. Along the way, they met a Viking, an outlaw who had escaped to East Greenland. This history is told in Flóamanna saga and Origines Islandicae and occurred during the early years of Viking Greenland , while Leif Ericson was still alive. Icelander Grettir Ásmundarson was outlawed by the assembly in Iceland . After many years on

3034-482: The company's own shipyards. The VOC issued charters which gave detailed specifications for these ships; these were updated from time to time. The charters gave a range of key hull dimensions and scheduled the sizes of the scantlings . However, the designs did not exist as plans or drawings that determined the shape of the hull. Unlike ships built for European trade, the VOC East Indiamen were planked with

3116-440: The eastern end of Java with the loss of only one man. In endeavouring to land, their boat was wrecked and many of the men ran off into the jungle. Leeman and his three remaining companions then walked the full length of the south coast of Java, through jungle, volcanic country, braving marauding tigers along the way. Upon getting to the western end of Java they were captured by a Javanese prince and held for ransom. The Dutch then paid

3198-480: The fate of the 68, who may have ended up east of Geraldton , approximately 350 kilometres to the north, ultimately integrating with the local Aboriginal population. Two stone arrangements, the Ring of Stones , found to the north in modern times may have been markers left by the 68 survivors. Archaeological investigations are continuing in an endeavour to locate the original campsite. On 28 March 1658, while searching for

3280-404: The final break-up of the ship and made it to Beacon Island after floating for two days. Though neither sailor nor soldier, Cornelisz was elected to be in charge of the survivors due to his senior rank in the Dutch East India Company. He made plans to hijack any rescue ship that might return and use the vessel to seek another safe haven. Cornelisz made far-fetched plans to start a new kingdom, using

3362-640: The gold and silver from the wreck. However, to carry out this plan, he first needed to eliminate possible opponents. Cornelisz's first deliberate act was to have all weapons and food supplies commandeered and placed under his control. He then moved a group of soldiers, led by Wiebbe Hayes , to nearby West Wallabi Island (located roughly 8.7 kilometres or 5.4 miles to the northwest), under the pretense of having them search for water. They were told to send smoke signals when they found water and they would then be rescued. Convinced that they would be unsuccessful, he then left them there to die, taking complete control of

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3444-488: The height of their last and deadliest battle, they were interrupted by the return of Pelsaert aboard the rescue vessel Sardam . Pelsaert subsequently tried and convicted Cornelisz and six of his men, who became the first Europeans to be legally executed in Australia. Two other mutineers, convicted of comparatively minor crimes, were marooned on mainland Australia , thus becoming the first Europeans to permanently inhabit

3526-421: The help of other mutineers, he then orchestrated a massacre that, over the course of several weeks, resulted in the murder of approximately 125 of the remaining survivors, including women, children and infants; a small number of women were kept as sex slaves . Meanwhile, Hayes' group had unexpectedly found fresh water and, after learning of the atrocities, waged battles with Cornelisz's group. In October 1629, at

3608-542: The hull timbers were erected on a steel frame. Its design—and that of a stone arch, also recovered—was such that individual components could be easily removed. In 1972, the Dutch government transferred rights to Dutch shipwrecks in Australian waters to the Australian government. Excavated items are on display at the Western Australian Museum 's various locations, though the majority of cannons and anchors have been left in situ . The wreck remains one of

3690-478: The individual Dutch states, with the remainder being mostly made up of similar coins produced by German cities such as Hamburg . Pelsaert was instructed to recover as much of the money as possible on his return to the Abrolhos Islands, using divers "to try if it is possible to salvage all the money [and] the casket of jewels that before your departure was already saved on the small island". Recovery of

3772-407: The island himself, whereby Hayes and his soldiers took Cornelisz hostage. The men who escaped regrouped under soldier Wouter Loos and tried again, this time employing muskets to besiege Hayes' fort and almost defeating the soldiers. However, Hayes' men prevailed again just as Sardam arrived. A race to the rescue ship ensued between Cornelisz' men and the soldiers. Hayes reached the ship first and

3854-404: The island is not mapped. These scenarios have given rise to the plots of numerous stories in the form of novels and film . Icelander Thorgisl set out to travel to Greenland . He and his party were first driven into a remote sound on the east coast of Greenland. Thorgisl, his infant son, and several others were then abandoned there by their thralls . Thorgisl and his party traveled slowly along

3936-460: The island until three of them went out for rescue in the ship's dinghy, sailing more than 400 km up north to Stewart Island. All men survived. Unknown to them, on May 11, 1864, the ship Invercauld bound from Melbourne to Callao was wrecked in bad weather on the west coast of the same island. From the initial crew of 25, only 19 made it to shore and after more than a year spent on the island only three men survived starvation and cold, being rescued by

4018-531: The island's population to around 45 so that their supplies would last as long as possible. He also feared that many of the survivors remained loyal to the company. In total, Cornelisz's followers murdered at least 110 men, women, and children. A small number of women were kept as sex slaves ; among them was Jans, who Cornelisz reserved for himself. Although Cornelisz had left the soldiers, led by Hayes, to die, they had in fact found good sources of water and food on West Wallabi Island. Initially, they were unaware of

4100-673: The island, except for two years around 1530, when the Portuguese king helped him travel to Rome, where the Pope granted him absolution for his sin of apostasy. In April 1520, a mutiny broke out in Magellan 's fleet while at the Patagonian seashore. Magellan put it down and executed some of the ringleaders. He then punished two others: the King of Spain 's delegate, Juan de Cartagena and

4182-477: The islets, most of them were either hanged or sent to court in the town of Batavia (now Jakarta ). However, Jan Pelgrom and Wouter Loos were marooned on the Australian mainland, probably at or near the mouth of Hutt River in Western Australia, on 16 November 1629. They were the first Europeans to reside in Australia. Abel Tasman (after whom Tasmania was named) was subsequently ordered to search for

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4264-659: The landing of the First Fleet in Sydney . Of the forty-seven or so VOC wrecks which have been located and identified, Batavia is the only early 17th century example from which the remaining hull components have been retrieved, conserved and subject to detailed study. Many Batavia artifacts are housed at the Western Australian Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle , while a replica of the ship

4346-410: The massacres taking place and sent pre-arranged smoke signals announcing their finds. However, they soon learned of the killings from survivors fleeing Beacon Island. In response, the soldiers devised makeshift weapons from materials washed up from the wreck. They also set a watch so that they were ready for Cornelisz's men, and built a small fort out of limestone and coral blocks. Cornelisz seized on

4428-487: The money was far from easy. Pelsaert reported difficulties in pulling up heavy chests, e.g. 27 October 1629, when a chest had to be marked with a buoy for later recovery. On 9 November, he recorded sending four money chests to Sardam , and three the next day, but then abandoned further recovery work. By 13 November, Pelsaert recorded that ten money chests had been recovered—about 80,000 coins—leaving two lost since there had been twelve loaded originally. One

4510-442: The news of water on the other island, as his own supply was dwindling and the continued survival of the soldiers threatened his own success. He was fearful that any rescue vessel would sight the soldiers first, therefore dispatched his men to eliminate this threat. But the trained soldiers were by now much better fed than Cornelisz' group and easily defeated them in several battles. Seeking to bring Hayes under his command he traveled to

4592-401: The original ship's hull. Other large items including port-side stern timbers, cannons and an anchor. A large selection of smaller items were excavated, with a many pottery containers, weapons, cooking equipment, navigation items (including four astrolabes). Added to this were various trade items carried as part of the ship's cargo. The excavation was carried out in challenging conditions, with

4674-451: The passengers and crew managed to get ashore, although 40 people drowned. The survivors, including all the women and children, were then transferred to nearby islands in the ship's longboat and yawl . An initial survey of the islands found no fresh water and only limited food ( sea lions and birds). Pelsaert realised the dire situation and decided to search for water on the mainland. A group consisting of Jacobsz, Pelsaert, senior officers,

4756-490: The premier diving sites on the Western Australian coast. Batavia carried a considerable amount of silver coins, manufactured silver items and jewels. The manufactured silverware were trade goods that Pelsaert had specifically requested to use in improving the VOC's trading capability – he had found that these were sought after by the "great men" he had dealt with in Agra . Though Pelsaert's divers recovered some of

4838-624: The priest, Pedro Sánchez Reina, by marooning them in that desolate place. They were never heard from again. Gonzalo de Vigo was a Spanish sailor ( Galician ) who deserted from Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa's Trinidad , part of the Spanish expedition of Ferdinand Magellan , while in the Maug Islands in August 1522. He lived with the Chamorros for four years and visited thirteen main islands in

4920-669: The rank of corporal . Of the original 332 people on board Batavia , only 122 made it to the port of Batavia. Sardam eventually sailed home with most of the treasure previously carried on Batavia aboard. Of the twelve treasure chests that were originally on board, ten were recovered and taken aboard Sardam . Surveying the north-west coast of the Abrolhos Islands for the British Admiralty in April 1840, Captain John Lort Stokes reported that "the beams of

5002-426: The ransom and Leeman and his compatriots finally made it to Batavia (Jakarta) on 23 September 1658. In 1681, a Miskito named Will by his English comrades was sent ashore as part of an English foraging party to Más a Tierra . When he was hunting for goats in the interior of the island, he suddenly saw his comrades departing in haste after having spotted the approach of enemies, leaving Will behind to survive until he

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5084-455: The remaining survivors. Cornelisz never committed any of the murders himself, although he tried and failed to poison a baby (who was eventually strangled ). Instead, he coerced others into doing it for him, usually under the pretense that the victim had committed a crime such as theft. Cornelisz and his henchmen had originally murdered to save themselves, but eventually they began to kill for pleasure or out of habit. Cornelisz planned to reduce

5166-461: The run, he and two companions went to the forbidden island of Drangey , where he lived several more years before his pursuers managed to kill him in 1031. The Portuguese soldier Fernão Lopes was marooned on the island of Saint Helena in 1513. He had lost his right hand, the thumb of his left hand, his nose, and his ears as punishment for mutiny and apostasy for converting to Islam . For the rest of his life – he died in about 1545 – Lopes stayed on

5248-556: The silverware in his salvage operations, a large quantity still remained to be recovered in the archaeolocial investigation. As well as more usual tableware, the silver finds included parts of bedsteads. Each ship in the Batavia class carried an estimated 250,000  guilders in twelve wooden chests, each containing about 8,000 silver coins. This money was intended for the purchase of spices and other commodities in Java . The bulk of these coins were silver rijksdaalder produced by

5330-472: The skeletal remains of some of the victims. Casefile True Crime Podcast also covered the incident in detail in February 2020, as did Omnibus , Ken Jennings and John Roderick's podcast in 2022. The voyage, shipwreck and subsequent events are the subject of David Mark 's 2022 novel Anatomy of a Heretic as well as Jess Kidd's 2022 novel The Night Ship . The extreme metal band Deströyer 666 wrote

5412-496: The survivors headed east along the Murchison River , 60 kilometres to the south. However, finds of a coin and a 'Leyden Tobacco Tin' at wells to the north, as well as linguistic and technological evidence suggest they headed north, perhaps ending up in the northern Gascoyne , about 450 kilometres north of the wrecksite. It is thought the survivors ultimately integrated with local Aboriginal populations. Leendert Hasenbosch

5494-496: The swell coming in from the Indian Ocean preventing diving on 173 days of the 447 days spent on site. Some of that diving was restricted to the inner wreck site, where material had been carried to an area sheltered from the swell inside the reef. In the fourth season on site (starting September 1975) only 10 days of diving were possible on the more exposed main wreck site. To facilitate the monitoring and any future treatment,

5576-422: The two men after this incident. Also on board was the junior merchant Jeronimus Cornelisz (30), a bankrupt apothecary from Haarlem who was fleeing the Netherlands, in fear of arrest because of his heretical beliefs associated with the painter Johannes van der Beeck . According to Pelsaert's account, Jacobsz and Cornelisz conceived a plan to take the ship during the voyage, which would allow them to start

5658-448: The western end of Java. They arrived there on 7 June 1656 and raised the alarm. A number of ships were then dispatched over the following two years to search for the survivors who had remained behind, but an incorrect latitude meant the searches focused on the wrong area. The original campsite, by then abandoned, was not found until 26 February 1658, by a shore party led by Upper Steersman Abraham Leeman. There has been much speculation as to

5740-644: The wreck and aftermath and then followed with the story of the discovery and recovery. In 1973, Bruce Beresford produced a film about the ship called The Wreck of the Batavia . Another documentary film, The Batavia – Wreck, Mutiny and Murder , was aired on the Nine Network in 1995. In 2001 the Welsh author Mike Dash published his book, Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny ,

5822-457: The wreck were found in 1927 but it was not until 1959 that the identity of the wreck was confirmed by Dr. Philip Playford. The discovery of a considerable amount of material from the wreck on the scree slope and top of the cliffs established that many people had managed to get off the stricken vessel and on to shore. Exactly how many people survived the disaster is uncertain and estimates vary from 30 up to 180 or more. There has been speculation that

5904-433: The yardarm on the later voyage back home. Cornelisz' second in command, Jacop Pietersz, was broken on the wheel , the most severe punishment available at the time. Jacobsz, despite being tortured, did not confess to his part in plotting the mutiny and escaped execution due to lack of evidence. What finally became of him is unknown; he might have died in prison in Batavia. A board of inquiry decided that Pelsaert had exercised

5986-444: Was a Dutch ship's officer (a bookkeeper), probably born in 1695. He was set ashore on the uninhabited Ascension Island on 5 May 1725 as a punishment for sodomy . He was left behind with a tent, a survival kit, and an amount of water sufficient to last about four weeks. He had bad luck in that no ships called at the island during his stay. He ate seabirds and green turtles , but probably died of thirst after about six months. He wrote

6068-470: Was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). She was built in Amsterdam in 1628 as the flagship of one of the three annual fleets of company ships and sailed that year on her maiden voyage for Batavia , capital of the Dutch East Indies . On 4 June 1629, Batavia was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos , a chain of small islands off Western Australia . As the ship broke apart, approximately 300 of

6150-470: Was a trend for VOC to have increasingly narrower designs in the early part of the 17th century. All VOC ships had a relatively high length to beam ratio, covering a range of 3.7:1 to 4.5:1. This was at a time when a 3:1 ratio would not have been unusual. Batavia , in common with other Dutch ships of the time, was built from oak imported from the forests bordering the Vistula . The Dutch trade in timber from

6232-479: Was able to present his side of the story to Pelsaert. After a short battle, the combined force captured all of Cornelisz's group. Pelsaert decided to conduct a trial on the islands, because Sardam on the return voyage to Batavia would have been overcrowded with both survivors and prisoners. After a brief trial, the worst offenders were taken to Seal Island and executed. Cornelisz and several of his henchmen had both hands chopped off before being hanged. Loos and

6314-484: Was built from 1985 to 1995, using the same materials and methods utilized in the early 17th century. Its design was based on contemporary accounts, recovered wreckage, and other contemporary ships such as Vasa . After a number of commemorative voyages, the vessel is now moored as a museum ship in Lelystad in the Netherlands. The story was retold in Hugh Edwards ' Islands of Angry Ghosts which described

6396-644: Was cut open to find out how they worked) and eating fish , barnacles and birds he captured, he survived for 76 days adrift before reaching the Caribbean, where he was discovered and rescued by local fishermen. Survivors of the Strathmore survived for 7 months on a small island of the Crozet Islands from 1875 to 1876. They survived from eating eggs and flesh of geese, albatrosses and other seabirds. The also ate root vegetables and fish. The survival

6478-632: Was jammed under a cannon, and the other one had been broken open by Cornelisz' men. Batavia ' s cargo also included special items being carried by Pelsaert for sale to the Mughal Court in India where he had intended to travel on to. There were four jewel bags, stated to be worth about 60,000 guilders, and an early-fourth-century Roman cameo , as well as numerous other items either now displayed in Fremantle and Geraldton , Western Australia, or recovered by Pelsaert. A Batavia ship replica

6560-644: Was picked up in 1684. The Juan Fernández Islands , to which Más a Tierra belongs, would have a more famous occupant in October 1704 when Alexander Selkirk made the decision to stay there. Selkirk, a sailor with the William Dampier expedition, became concerned about the condition and seaworthiness of the Cinque Ports , the vessel on which he was sailing, and chose to be put ashore on the island. The ship later sank with most of its crew being lost. Being

6642-555: Was recorded by the Queen of Navarre in her work Heptaméron . In 1629 Jan Pelgrom de Bye van Bemel, a cabin boy, and Wouter Loos , a 24-year-old soldier, had been on board the Dutch ship Batavia . The ship was famous because it was wrecked on Morning Reef of the Wallabi Group of the Houtman Abrolhos , (off the west coast of Australia) leading to the infamous Batavia Mutiny and mass killings. When all culprits were arrested on

6724-600: Was the input for, among others, the book “Survival on the Crozet Islands: The Wreck of the Strathmore in 1875”. Other castaways in history include: Various novels, television shows and films tell the story of castaways: This is a list of fiction. There are also memoirs such as Castaway . Castaways are part of other stories as well, where the event is not the central plot but is still an important aspect. Examples include: Desert Island Discs

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