
1727
Zeewijk (Jan Steyns)
On 9 June 1727, after its captain, Jan Steyns, disobeyed company sailing orders and tried to anchor off Eendracht’s Land, the VOC (Dutch East India Company) ship Zeewijk was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos. The survivors built a boat, the Sloepie, and sailed it to Batavia.
