BLIJDORP and PADMOS VOC ships

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This stamp shows us a wooden model of a VOC retour vessel, she has two names on the stern BLIJDORP and PATMOS. This indicates that the shipsmodel represent two identical ships built in 1722/23. Both ships were built for the VOC Chamber of Rotterdam and most probably it model stood in the VOC boardroom at Rotterdam.
The Dutch VOC built many identical ships and the BLIJDORP and PATMOS were almost sisters.
The BLIJDORP was built on the VOC yard of Rotterdam for the Chamber of the VOC of Rotterdam in 1723, length 145 ft.
Tonnage 450 last (900 ton). Three masts.
She was armed with 54 guns and carried a crew of around 200 – 225 men.
08 January 1724 sailed on her maiden voyage from Goeree via Cape of Good Hope to Batavia and was under command of skipper Jan Krielaard. Arrived Batavia 03 August 1724. At that time the Nieuwe Waterweg which now is the connection between Rotterdam and the North Sea did not excist, and the ships sailed from Hellevoetsluis or Goeree.
She made three retour voyages between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indish and one voyage in 1731 from Batavia to Deshima, Japan and return to Batavia. 14 February 1732 she sailed from Batavia and arrived at Texel 22 October 1732.
Her last voyage was when she sailed on 06 July 1733 from Texel under command of Skipper Haije Blaauwhuis. 05 August 1733 she ran aground and was lost on or off the Cape Verde Islands. She was in the company of two other VOC ships, but this two vessels did not bother to rescue the crew of the BLIJDORP. Can’t find what has happed with the crew after the vessel was lost.
The PATMOS (or PADMOS) was also built on the VOC yard in Rotterdam for the Chamber of the VOC of Rotterdam in 1722.
Tonnage 405 last, 810 ton.
Crew between 200 and 255 men.
07 April 1723 she sailed on her maiden voyage from Hellevoetsluis via Cape of Good Hope to Batavia under skipper Gelijn de Haas with on board 148 crew, 98 soldiers, 2 craftsmen and 5 passengers.
25 October 1723 she arrived in Batavia.
She made nine retour voyages to the Dutch East Indies and one retour voyage to Deshima, Japan.
22 March 1746 she left for her last voyage from Rammekens, Netherland and arrived 09 January 1747 at Ceylon.
What happened then is not sure, the database gives not more voyages, most probably she stayed in the Dutch East Indies, she was lost on 27 October 1752 on a reef in the Smalle Baai (Small Bay), Dutch East Indies? Other source gives Mozambique?.

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