Oude Zijpe
Dutch ship (1740–1742)
Oude Zijpe, also written as Oude Zype, Oude Zijp and Oude Sype was an 18th-century fluyt of the Dutch East India Company.
During the last part of her first return voyage from Batavia, she ran aground during a heavy storm on 22 September 1742 off Bloemendaal, 0.5 mile north of Zandvoort. The crew and most of the cargo was rescued.
Ship details
Oude Zijpe was built in 1740 in Hoorn for the Chamber of Hoorn. She was 130 feet long, had a loading capacity of 650 tons. The ship had capacity for 150 crew members.
Sole voyage and fate
On 29 June 1740, soon after the ship was launched, she went to Batavia under command of Joost Anker. She had an intermediate stop at Cape of Good Hope between 16 December 1740 and 19 January 1741. She arrived at Batavia on 28 May 1741.
A year later she started her return voyage to Amsterdam on 19 January 1742 under command of captain Joost Anker with a cargo of among others pepper and muskat.
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