The Fractured Crew of the Arnhem (1662)

On the 23rd of December 1662, Joan Maetsuycker wrote a letter from Batavia: “We hoped that the other four missing vessels would have been found at St. Helena but the contrary has been the case; and this has caused us great anxiety and almost made us believe that some disaster from storms had befallen them, for shortly afterwards - god help us - we received news from Ceylon that the Arnhem had, in the said storm, been disabled by the loss of her rudderpin…”  Ship Name: Arnhem Ship Built: 1654 Tonnage: 1,000 Nationality: Netherlands  Ship Type: East Indiaman  Year Wrecked: 1662 Location Wrecked: Somewhere in the Indian Ocean, about 150 miles from Mauritius  Reason for Wreck: Poorly Stored Cargo in Storm  Lives Lost; At Least 80 Sources:  https://books.google.com/books?id=_d5BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA96&dq=arnhem+1662+mauritius&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXgtrctpCFAxXurYkEHcLuC2MQ6AF6BAgLEAI#v=onepage&q=arnhem%20&f=false https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/precisofarchives13capeiala/precisofarchives13capeiala.pdf https://mass.cultureelerfgoed.nl/arnhem https://books.google.com/books?id=5qMCEQWcHGUC&pg=PA212&dq=arnhem+1662+mauritius&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXgtrctpCFAxXurYkEHcLuC2MQ6AF6BAgIEAI#v=onepage&q=arnhem%201662%20mauritius&f=false https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288838742_The_Dodo's_last_island_-_where_did_Volkert_Evertsz_meet_the_last_wild_Dodos https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.13359518&seq=4 https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/3/1/4 https://www.jstor.org/stable/23622237?read-now=1&seq=37