SCHELLACK VOC ship 1736

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The late Mr. Argyle wrote in Log Book April 1977 page 117.

5Gs. This Japanese print depicts the Dutch East Indiaman SHELLACK bringing cloth, spices and aromatic weeds to Nagasaki in 1782 (year is not correct she was at that time not more a vessel of the VOC.) The Dutch obtained permission to trade with Japan, but for many years the privilege was confined to one ship a year. This ship itself is quite according to the print, but the coloring of the flags is in most cases somewhat inaccurate, so I presume is the coloring of the ship.

I believe she is the vessel, the hull looks the same, the flags and sails most probably altered by the designer of the stamp, and as there were only two vessels with the name SCHELLAK in the fleet of the VOC, of which one never has been in Japan she must be the vessel built in 1736. The name given in the article in Log Book is not correct, not any vessel under that name has sailed for the VOC.
The painting is made by the Japanese painter Yamatoya.

SCHELLAK built in 1736 as a square sterned retour (a vessel which would return to the Netherlands) vessel built on the yard of the VOC of the Chamber of Zeeland, most probably at Middelburg.
Tonnage 850 tons.

1) Sailed 01 June 1737 from Rammekens (near Flushing) via Cape of Good Hope, to Batavia under command of Capt. Gerrit de Somer and a crew of 225.
Stayed at the Cape from 04 Nov. until 26 Nov.
Arrived Batavia 15 Feb. 1738.
Sailed from Batavia on 02 Feb. 1739.
Stayed at the Cape of Good Hope from 17 May until 01 June.
Arrived Rammekens 08 Oct. 1739.

2) Sailed 20 April 1740 from Rammekens.
Stayed on the Cape of Good Hope from 21 July until 11 Sept.
Arrived Batavia 19 Nov. 1740.
Sailed from Batavia 14 Jan. 1741, and must have sailed via Nagasaki.
Stayed on the Cape of Good Hope from 14 April until 10 May.
Arrived Rammekens 27 Sept. 1741.

3) 01 Nov. 1742 sailed from Rammekens.
Stayed on the Cape of Good Hope from 01 March until 16 March.
Arrived Batavia 28 May 1743.
Sailed Batavia 17 Oct. 1743, and must have sailed via Nagasaki.
Stayed on the Cape of Good Hope from 12 Jan.1744 until 05 March.
Arrived Texel 17 June 1744, made this voyage for the Chamber of the VOC from Amsterdam.

4) Sailed from Texel on 14 Jan. 1745.
Stayed at the Cape of Good Hope from 01 June until 18 June.
Arrived Batavia 17 August 1745.
Sailed Ceylon 19 Jan. 1746.
Stayed at the Cape of Good Hope from 26 March until 19 April.
Arrived Rammekens 12 August 1745. Again a voyage for the Chamber of the VOC of Zeeland.

5) Her last voyage, sailed Rammekens 20 August 1747.
Stayed at the Cape of Good Hope from 18 Dec. until 16 Jan. 1748.
Arrived Batavia 18 May 1748.
On her homeward voyage captured by the French.

Japan 1989 62y sg1998, scott?
Paraguay 1979 5g sg?, scott 1905c

The web page I got all this details from http://www.vocsite.nl/schepen/detail.html?id=10927 gives that she visited in 1741 and 1744 Nagasaki, Japan.