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Wapen van Alkmaar: Huguenot Ship to the Cape

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  • Antoine Martin (1664 - 1699)
    List of Huguenots embarking from France * Huguenot Heritage Ship Lists * Coertzen, Pieter. 1988. Die Hugenote Van Suid Afrika 1688-1988: Cape Town, Tafelberg.= Antoine Martin in BoucherA Jacques Theron...
  • Pierre Benezet (deceased)
    List of Huguenots embarking from France * Huguenot Heritage Ship Lists == Pierre Benezet in BoucherThe refugee of 1688 Pierre Benezet named his Drakenstein farm Languedoc.152 There were at least two Be...
  • Pierre Roux (b. - 1742)
    List of Huguenots embarking from France * Huguenot Heritage Ship Lists ==Pierre Roux in BoucherThere was a Pierre Roux at Cabrieres after the revocation whose wife was Madeleine Goirande.[Registre des ...
  • Pierre Rochefort (b. - aft.1708)
    List of Huguenots embarking from France * Huguenot Heritage Ship Lists =Pierre Rochefort in BoucherThe refugee Pierre Rochefort was born at Grenoble,105 where Calvinists, although very much in a minori...
  • Pierre Batté (deceased)
    List of Huguenots embarking from France * Huguenot Heritage Ship Lists

Wapen van Alkmaar arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 27 January 1689

  • Ship’s type: Pinas
  • Construction: Built in 1691 for the Chamber of Zeeland at the VOC ship yard in Middelburg.
  • Term: In use by the VOC from 1671 until 1690 when it was wrecked at the Shetland Islands.
  • Length: 160 feet
  • Breadth: 38,25 feet
  • Depth: 13 feet
  • Loading capacity: 892 tons
  • Crew: 260-300 men
  • Flag: Chamber of Amsterdam
  • Voyage: Departed from Texel on 27 July 1688 and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 27 January 1689.
  • Captain: Karel Goske

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