#east indiaman kent

[ltwilliammowett]

Loss of the East Indiaman 'Kent', 1 March 1825: catching fire, by Thomas Luny, 1826

[aqua-regia009]

Loss of East Indiaman Kent, 1827 - oil on canvas. ― Théodore Gudin (French, 1802-1880)

[centuriespast]

Loss of the East Indiaman 'Kent': The Burning Hulk Thomas Luny (1759–1837) National Maritime Museum

[arinewman7]

Loss of East Indiaman Kent by Théodore Gudin, (1802–1880) c. 1828 oil on canvas

[marryat92]

Perhaps there is nothing more awful than the alarm of fire at sea: the feeling that there is no escape—the only choice being by which element, fire or water, you choose to perish.

— Frederick Marryat, Percival Keene

The Loss of the East Indiaman 'Kent' in the Bay of Biscay, 1 March 1825, by Thomas Buttersworth.

[barbariankingdom]

East Indiaman Kent (left) battling Confiance, a privateer vessel commanded by French corsair Robert Surcouf in October 1800, as depicted in a painting by Ambroise Louis Garneray.

[nebris]

Kent, launched in 1799, was an East Indiaman of the British East India Company. On her first voyage in 1800 she was on her way to Bengal and Bencoolen when the French privateer Robert Surcouf captured her near the mouth of the Ganges. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_(1799_ship)

[poboh]

Loss of the East Indiaman Kent, Jean Antoine Theodore Gudin. French (1802 - 1880)

[sheriffof0]

A Narrative of the Loss of the Kent East Indiaman by Fire in the Bay of Biscay on the 1st March, 1825 in a Letter to a Friend by a Passenger, 4th Edition, with additions (Edinburgh, 1826), Waugh & Innes. #eastindiacompany #sheppertoncarbootsale #sillymoney (at Hanworth, Hounslow, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci4pm4-oOmd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[secrets-of-the-dark-academia]

Théodore Gudin - Loss of the East indiaman Kent (1828)

[hudsonespie]

The Sad Tale of the Amsterdam's Demise

During my holiday trip in the South of England I visited the Shipwreck Museum at Hasting, an independent charitable Museum set in the historic Old Town of Hastings. 

The Museum has artifacts from many ships wrecked in the English Channel from the Goodwin Sands in Kent to Pevensey Bay in East Sussex including the Amsterdam, a Dutch East Indiaman of 1749. 

The story of the Amsterdam begins in the city of Amsterdam in 1748 when she was built in the shipyard of the Dutch East India Company (the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie). Her Captain, Willem Klump, was a man of 33 who lived with his wife Margareta and infant daughter Elysabet, and baby son Coenraad, in a tall narrow fronted house overlooking the tree-lined Prinsengracht. 

This was not his first voyage to the East Indies, so he knew the usual dangers that could be faced during the nine month outward bound voyage. Although the main components of the ship’s cargo were over two tonnes of silver bullion, she also carried a mixed cargo that included many bottles of wine and masses of fine cloth.  

So, when she sailed out on her maiden voyage to Java, in November 1748, Captain Klump was in charge of 333 people, sailors, gunners, garrison soldiers and also five Company passengers, three of them were women. They had boarded the ship at Texel at the northern entrance to the Zuider Zee but soon found that her voyage was delayed by westerly winds. She eventually departed from the Dutch coast on January 8, 1749. 

The wreck of the Amsterdam is the most notable feature of the beach at Bulverhythe, the tops of its ribs being exposed in the sands and the peaty clay of the prehistoric forest. This large vessel was run ashore in a severe gale on Sunday January 26, 1749. Fifty of her crew of 333 had died of plague, traditionally said to be yellow fever, since the ship left the Netherlands on the first stage of her intended maiden trading voyage to Java, via the Cape. Forty more people were sick and dying, as she was beached at high tide, their misery being compounded by the ship having lost her rudder in Pevensey Bay. 

The crew seems to have mutinied, since shooting certainly occurred, and they broke into the cargo of wine and many became drunk. The crew clambered down the sides of the ship at low tide that night and were taken to safety in Hastings. Local smugglers quickly raided the ship and took some of the silver bars from the 2.5 tonnes of bullion that the Amsterdam was carrying, and, after the rest of the bullion was removed, the town crier tried to recover the missing bars from the inhabitants of Hastings. 

Fighting broke out between local people trying to raid the ship, and one man was shot on the beach. The Hastings coroner decided that it was not his responsibility to investigate the matter, as he considered that the man had died “at sea.” In just a few months the Amsterdam sank about eight meters into the beach, so that nowadays the remains of her decks are buried with much of her cargo, supplies and personal possessions still intact. The bow of the ship lies towards the shore, and the seaward end the wreck is surrounded by steel sheet piling put there in the 1980’s to aid archaeological excavations by a combined Dutch and British team. 

The Amsterdam is of global importance since she is two-thirds complete, the most intact East Indiaman of any country known in the world, and it was the East India Companies of Europe, particularly Dutch and the English, that opened up global trade in the 17th and 18th centuries, by using East Indiamen. 

(Sources: Wikipedia; Photos: Towingline)

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[ltwilliammowett]

The Loss of the East Indiaman 'Kent' in the Bay of Biscay, 1 March 1825, by Thomas Buttersworth 19th century

[hzaidan]

Théodore Gudin, Loss of East Indiaman Kent 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #120 Please click on link for the full post!

Art, artist, Beach, biography, footnotes, History, Marine, Paintings, Sea, Ships, Zaidan, Théodore Gudin,  East Indiaman Kent,  

http://myartblogcollection.blogspot.com/2018/07/tate-blockbuster-to-prove-pierre.html

[centuriespast]

Loss of the East Indiaman 'Kent', 1 March 1825: Catching Fire Thomas Luny (1759–1837) National Maritime Museum

On 1 March 1825 in the Bay of Biscay, following two days of storms, the ship caught fire, reportedly from an accident with a naked light by malefactors attempting to steal liquor from her hold.

[marryat92]

My father was brought up to the sea, Jack, and was a smart young man till he was about thirty; when a fall from the main-yard disabled him from hard duty, and going aloft: but still he had been brought up to sea, and was fit for nothing on shore. So, as he was a clean likely fellow, he obtained the situation of purser's steward in an Indiaman.

— Frederick Marryat, Poor Jack

A Portrait of an East Indiaman off Dover, Kent by Thomas Whitcombe, 1808

[hudsonespie]

The Sad Tale of the Amsterdam's Demise

During my holiday trip in the South of England I visited the Shipwreck Museum at Hasting, an independent charitable Museum set in the historic Old Town of Hastings. 

The Museum has artifacts from many ships wrecked in the English Channel from the Goodwin Sands in Kent to Pevensey Bay in East Sussex including the Amsterdam, a Dutch East Indiaman of 1749. 

The story of the Amsterdam begins in the city of Amsterdam in 1748 when she was built in the shipyard of the Dutch East India Company (the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie). Her Captain, Willem Klump, was a man of 33 who lived with his wife Margareta and infant daughter Elysabet, and baby son Coenraad, in a tall narrow fronted house overlooking the tree-lined Prinsengracht. 

This was not his first voyage to the East Indies, so he knew the usual dangers that could be faced during the nine month outward bound voyage. Although the main components of the ship’s cargo were over two tonnes of silver bullion, she also carried a mixed cargo that included many bottles of wine and masses of fine cloth.  

So, when she sailed out on her maiden voyage to Java, in November 1748, Captain Klump was in charge of 333 people, sailors, gunners, garrison soldiers and also five Company passengers, three of them were women. They had boarded the ship at Texel at the northern entrance to the Zuider Zee but soon found that her voyage was delayed by westerly winds. She eventually departed from the Dutch coast on January 8, 1749. 

The wreck of the Amsterdam is the most notable feature of the beach at Bulverhythe, the tops of its ribs being exposed in the sands and the peaty clay of the prehistoric forest. This large vessel was run ashore in a severe gale on Sunday January 26, 1749. Fifty of her crew of 333 had died of plague, traditionally said to be yellow fever, since the ship left the Netherlands on the first stage of her intended maiden trading voyage to Java, via the Cape. Forty more people were sick and dying, as she was beached at high tide, their misery being compounded by the ship having lost her rudder in Pevensey Bay. 

The crew seems to have mutinied, since shooting certainly occurred, and they broke into the cargo of wine and many became drunk. The crew clambered down the sides of the ship at low tide that night and were taken to safety in Hastings. Local smugglers quickly raided the ship and took some of the silver bars from the 2.5 tonnes of bullion that the Amsterdam was carrying, and, after the rest of the bullion was removed, the town crier tried to recover the missing bars from the inhabitants of Hastings. 

Fighting broke out between local people trying to raid the ship, and one man was shot on the beach. The Hastings coroner decided that it was not his responsibility to investigate the matter, as he considered that the man had died “at sea.” In just a few months the Amsterdam sank about eight meters into the beach, so that nowadays the remains of her decks are buried with much of her cargo, supplies and personal possessions still intact. The bow of the ship lies towards the shore, and the seaward end the wreck is surrounded by steel sheet piling put there in the 1980’s to aid archaeological excavations by a combined Dutch and British team. 

The Amsterdam is of global importance since she is two-thirds complete, the most intact East Indiaman of any country known in the world, and it was the East India Companies of Europe, particularly Dutch and the English, that opened up global trade in the 17th and 18th centuries, by using East Indiamen. 

(Sources: Wikipedia; Photos: Towingline)

from Storage Containers https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/the-sad-tale-of-the-amsterdam-s-demise via http://www.rssmix.com/