Cape Council of Policy
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1683-05-15
Minute details
- Entry number
- 728
- Date
- 1683-05-15
- Year
- 1683
English translation
Presentibus d'Heer Commandeur Simon van der Stel, Jeronimus Cruse, capt.; Pieter Lakens, rear admiral; Adriaan van der Werff, Cornelis Valckenburgh, Beijer Vis, Jacob Jaarsma, Matthijs Vonck, Hendrick Bontecraij, Harmen Voet,95 Andries de Man, sub-coopman, Philip Th[e]odoor Welcker, guarnisoen bookkeeper.
The commanding skipper of the return ship Asia, Jacob Jaarsma, having related in this Council how his aforementioned entrusted ship was so badly damaged and leaky that he had been able to keep it going with 4 pumps until its arrival here in Table Bay, without actually being able to know where this great leak had come from,96 adding that during the voyage they had indeed experienced that the bow was shooting out and in, and a great deal of water was flowing in as a result, as well as through the bread chambers where the spices were stored, the water was coming down in great quantity to the rear of the peak, so that it is sufficiently clear that behind or near the stern a dangerous leak will also occur, which will lead to the preservation of the ship and The Company's richly loaded returns will inevitably have to be repaired before the departure of that bottom, so that neither unloading a good portion of the cargo can be done to get the leaks above water, nor that the bottom is otherwise unsuitable for repatriation in that bad shape. Whereupon the advice of all the skippers present was heard in this Council, to that end assumed, whereupon having been carefully deliberated, So it was unanimously found good and the aforementioned is arrested. To unload the return ship Asia sufficiently to discover the leaks, when it would be more expedient to finally resolve both matters. The unloaded goods would be provisionally shipped over in the small barges and the Company's large sailing chalices, provided that, to prevent any errors and to ensure that no fraud occurs in this regard, committees would be appointed on both sides.
Thus resolved and arrested at the Castle of Good Hope, date above.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] PIETER LAKENS.
[Signed:] ARN. v. WERFF.
[Signed:] CORNELIS VALCKENBURGH.
[Signed:] BEIJER VISCH.
[Signed:] JACOB DIRCXZ JAERSMA.
[Signed:] MATTHIJS VONCK.
[Signed:] HENDRICK BONTEKRAEIJ.
[Signed:] HN. VOET.
[Signed:] THEUNIS JANSZ DE HOOP.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. and Sects.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
The commanding skipper of the return ship Asia, Jacob Jaarsma, having related in this Council how his aforementioned entrusted ship was so badly damaged and leaky that he had been able to keep it going with 4 pumps until its arrival here in Table Bay, without actually being able to know where this great leak had come from,96 adding that during the voyage they had indeed experienced that the bow was shooting out and in, and a great deal of water was flowing in as a result, as well as through the bread chambers where the spices were stored, the water was coming down in great quantity to the rear of the peak, so that it is sufficiently clear that behind or near the stern a dangerous leak will also occur, which will lead to the preservation of the ship and The Company's richly loaded returns will inevitably have to be repaired before the departure of that bottom, so that neither unloading a good portion of the cargo can be done to get the leaks above water, nor that the bottom is otherwise unsuitable for repatriation in that bad shape. Whereupon the advice of all the skippers present was heard in this Council, to that end assumed, whereupon having been carefully deliberated, So it was unanimously found good and the aforementioned is arrested. To unload the return ship Asia sufficiently to discover the leaks, when it would be more expedient to finally resolve both matters. The unloaded goods would be provisionally shipped over in the small barges and the Company's large sailing chalices, provided that, to prevent any errors and to ensure that no fraud occurs in this regard, committees would be appointed on both sides.
Thus resolved and arrested at the Castle of Good Hope, date above.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] PIETER LAKENS.
[Signed:] ARN. v. WERFF.
[Signed:] CORNELIS VALCKENBURGH.
[Signed:] BEIJER VISCH.
[Signed:] JACOB DIRCXZ JAERSMA.
[Signed:] MATTHIJS VONCK.
[Signed:] HENDRICK BONTEKRAEIJ.
[Signed:] HN. VOET.
[Signed:] THEUNIS JANSZ DE HOOP.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. and Sects.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
Original Dutch transcription
Presentibus d’ Heer Commandeur Simon van der Stel, Jeronimus Cruse, capt.; Pieter Lakens, schout bij naght; Adriaan van der Werff, Cornelis Valckenburgh, Beijer Vis, Jacob Jaarsma, Matthijs Vonck, Hendrick Bontecraij, Harmen Voet,95 Andries de Man, ondercoopman, Philip Th[e]odoor Welcker, guarnisoen boeckhouder.
Den commandeerende schipper op ‘t retourschip Asia , Jacob Jaarsma, bij monde in desen Rade hebbende verhaalt, hoe dat sijn opgemelte aanvertrouwt schip soodanigh ontset en leck was, als met 4 pompen tot zijn arrivement alhier in de Tafelbaaij hadde connen gaande houden, sonder dat hij eijgentlijck conde weten waar door dese groote leccagie was van daan comende,96 met bijvoeginge dat zij op de reijs wel hadden ondervonden dat de voorsteeven uijt en inschoot, en veel water daardoor quam invloeijen, mitsgaders door de brootcamers waar in de specerijen lagen ‘t water in groote quantiteijt tot aghter in de piek comt neder te loopen, sulx genoeghsaam daar uijt blijckt, dat aghter aan off ontrent de spiegel mede een dangereus leck sal schuijlen, dat tot behoudenis van ‘t schip en ‘s Comps. rijck ingeladen retouren onvermijdelijck, alvoorens het vertreck van dien bodem, sal moeten werden gerepareert, dat niet als met het ontlossen van een goet gedeelte der inladingh sal connen geschieden om de lecken daar door boven water te krijgen, off dat dien bodem anders onbequam is om in die quade gestalte te connen repatrieeren, Waar op dan is gehoort ‘t advijs van alle de aanwesende schippers, in desen Raden tot dien eijnde g’assumeert, waar op dan met aandaght gedelibereert zijnde, Soo is met eenparigheijt van stemmen goet gevonden en g’arresteerdt ‘t voorn. retourschip Asia soo verre te ontlossen dat men de lecken sal connen ontdecken, wanneer men bequamer sal wesen op ‘t een en ‘t ander finalijck te resolveeren, sullende de ontloste goederen in ‘t fluijtje Baren en ‘s Comp. groote zeijlchialoupen provisionelijck werden overgescheept, mitsgrs. tot voorcominge van alle abuijsen en dat daar ontrent geen fraude comt te geschieden wederzyts gecommitteerdens werden gestelt.
Aldus g’resolveert en g’arresteert in ‘t Casteel d’ Goede Hoop, datum ut supra.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] PIETER LAKENS.
[Signed:] ARN. v. WERFF.
[Signed:] CORNELIS VALCKENBURGH.
[Signed:] BEIJER VISCH.
[Signed:] JACOB DIRCXZ JAERSMA.
[Signed:] MATTHIJS VONCK.
[Signed:] HENDRICK BONTEKRAEIJ.
[Signed:] HN. VOET.
[Signed:] THEUNIS JANSZ DE HOOP.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. en Sects.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
Den commandeerende schipper op ‘t retourschip Asia , Jacob Jaarsma, bij monde in desen Rade hebbende verhaalt, hoe dat sijn opgemelte aanvertrouwt schip soodanigh ontset en leck was, als met 4 pompen tot zijn arrivement alhier in de Tafelbaaij hadde connen gaande houden, sonder dat hij eijgentlijck conde weten waar door dese groote leccagie was van daan comende,96 met bijvoeginge dat zij op de reijs wel hadden ondervonden dat de voorsteeven uijt en inschoot, en veel water daardoor quam invloeijen, mitsgaders door de brootcamers waar in de specerijen lagen ‘t water in groote quantiteijt tot aghter in de piek comt neder te loopen, sulx genoeghsaam daar uijt blijckt, dat aghter aan off ontrent de spiegel mede een dangereus leck sal schuijlen, dat tot behoudenis van ‘t schip en ‘s Comps. rijck ingeladen retouren onvermijdelijck, alvoorens het vertreck van dien bodem, sal moeten werden gerepareert, dat niet als met het ontlossen van een goet gedeelte der inladingh sal connen geschieden om de lecken daar door boven water te krijgen, off dat dien bodem anders onbequam is om in die quade gestalte te connen repatrieeren, Waar op dan is gehoort ‘t advijs van alle de aanwesende schippers, in desen Raden tot dien eijnde g’assumeert, waar op dan met aandaght gedelibereert zijnde, Soo is met eenparigheijt van stemmen goet gevonden en g’arresteerdt ‘t voorn. retourschip Asia soo verre te ontlossen dat men de lecken sal connen ontdecken, wanneer men bequamer sal wesen op ‘t een en ‘t ander finalijck te resolveeren, sullende de ontloste goederen in ‘t fluijtje Baren en ‘s Comp. groote zeijlchialoupen provisionelijck werden overgescheept, mitsgrs. tot voorcominge van alle abuijsen en dat daar ontrent geen fraude comt te geschieden wederzyts gecommitteerdens werden gestelt.
Aldus g’resolveert en g’arresteert in ‘t Casteel d’ Goede Hoop, datum ut supra.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] PIETER LAKENS.
[Signed:] ARN. v. WERFF.
[Signed:] CORNELIS VALCKENBURGH.
[Signed:] BEIJER VISCH.
[Signed:] JACOB DIRCXZ JAERSMA.
[Signed:] MATTHIJS VONCK.
[Signed:] HENDRICK BONTEKRAEIJ.
[Signed:] HN. VOET.
[Signed:] THEUNIS JANSZ DE HOOP.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. en Sects.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.