Making Waves: Selected Updates from the Rooswijk Project
Published 3 March 2021 On the 8th of January 1740, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship Rooswijk weighed anchor and left harbour on the Dutch island of Texel, carrying a varied cargo that included large quantities of silver coins and bullion intended for trade. This marked the start of what would have been an arduous 9-12-month long journey to Batavia, the then capital of the former Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia). However, by the next day Rooswijk had been driven onto the Goodwin Sands off the coast of Kent and subsequently broke up – sinking with no survivors. Passing in...
Source: historicengland.org.uk