The Castaways of Vice Admiraal Rijk (1852)

The Dutch ship, the Amicilia could see a flag flying from the top of a tall tree on a high point of land fluttering over Christmas Island. This certainly bore investigation since it was well known that there was no one living on Christmas Island. The Amicilia launched a boat and some men rowed towards Christma Island. Ship Name: Vice Admiraal Rijk Year Built: 1846 Tonnage: 469 Ship Type: Wooden Sailing Bark Nationality: Dutch Location Wrecked: Christmas Island Year Wrecked: 1852 . Reason For Wreck: Struck Rock in a Storm Lives Lost: 17 Sources: https://www.marhisdata.nl/gezagvoerder&id=442 https://www.marhisdata.nl/schip?id=13822 https://english.cultureelerfgoed.nl/latest/weblog/2019/more-insight-in-the-thirty-shipwrecks-around-christmas-island https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c008845668&view=1up&seq=347 https://christmasislandarchives.com/shipwreck-account/ https://www.academia.edu/27051924/Closing_in_on_the_Fortuyn_Report_on_fieldwork_conducted_in_2016_at_Christmas_and_the_Cocos_Keeling_Islands https://www.academia.edu/44013455/Wreck_Check_s_Closing_in_on_the_Fortuyn_Project Misadventures in Nature’s Paradise by Graeme Henderson, Andrew Viduka, and Robert de Hoop https://rsr.akvo.org/dir/project/3343/update?id=14389