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Also known as Zeewyk

thumb|1845 British Admiralty chart showing Zeewijk wreck location

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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • Background
  • The disaster
  • Sodomy charge
  • {{anchor|Sloepie}}The ''Sloepie''
  • Discovery and subsequent excavation
  • See also
  • References
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|1845 British Admiralty chart showing Zeewijk wreck location

The Zeewijk (or Zeewyk) was an 18th-century East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company (, commonly abbreviated to VOC) that was shipwrecked at the Houtman Abrolhos, off the coast of Western Australia, on 9 June 1727. The survivors built a second ship, the Sloepie, enabling 82 out of the initial crew of 208 to reach their initial destination of Batavia on 30 April 1728. Since the 19th century many objects have been found near the wreck site, which are now in the Western Australian Museum. The shipwreck itself was found in 1968 by divers.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zeewijk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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