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ship A ship is a large watercraft, vessel that travels the world's oceans and other Waterway, navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing. Ships are generally disti ...

s of the

Dutch East India Company The United East India Company ( ; VOC ), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered company, chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world. Established on 20 March 1602 by the States Ge ...

(, commonly abbreviated to VOC) and its pre-companies have been named ''Amsterdam''. * Amsterdam (1594) was a 130-

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()

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that was one of the four ships in the

First Dutch Expedition to Nusantara The First Dutch Expedition to the East Indies () was an expedition that took place from 1595 to 1597. It was instrumental in opening up the Indonesian spice trade to the merchants that eventually formed the Dutch East India Company, and ...

(, and with which both

Cornelis Cornelis is a Dutch language, Dutch form of the male given name Cornelius (name), Cornelius. Some common shortened versions of Cornelis in Dutch are Cees, Cor, Corné, Corneel, Crelis, Kees (given name), Kees, Neel and Nelis. Cornelis (Kees) an ...

and his brother Frederik de Houtman sailed). Amsterdam (1594) was set adrift and burnt on 11 January 1597. One of the other ships was the that (or a newer ship with the same name) in 1606 during a voyage of discovery would become the first European ship to encounter the

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. * Amsterdam (1598) was a 250-last () ship that was one of the eight ships in the Second Dutch Expedition to Nusantara (), the first expedition led by

Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck (often anglicized to Jacob Cornelius van Neck) (1564 – March 8, 1638) was a Dutch naval officer and explorer who led the Second Dutch Expedition to Indonesia (1598-1600), second Dutch expedition to Indonesia from ...

. Sailing on Hollandia (1594), one of the other ships in this expedition, was

Willem Janszoon Willem Janszoon (; ) was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. He served in the Dutch East Indies in the periods 1603–1611 and 1612–1616, including as governor of Fort Henricus on the island of Solor. During his voyage of 1605–1606 ...

who would later captain the . * Amsterdam (1600) was a 450-last () ship that was one of the six ships in the second expedition led by Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck. * Amsterdam (1603) was a 350-last () ship that was one of the twelve ships in the VOC's first fleet that departed for the

East Indies The East Indies (or simply the Indies) is a term used in historical narratives of the Age of Discovery. The ''Indies'' broadly referred to various lands in Eastern world, the East or the Eastern Hemisphere, particularly the islands and mainl ...

on 18 December 1603 under the command of

Steven van der Hagen Steven van der Hagen (Amersfoort, 1563 – 1624) was the first admiral of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He made three visits to the East Indies, spending six years in all there. He was appointed to the Council of the Indies. Van der ...

. One of the others was with Willem Janszoon as captain on their second journey to the East Indies. Between 28 June 1608 and 23 August 1608, was part of a fleet that fought the Portuguese at the

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in the

Dutch–Portuguese War The Dutch–Portuguese War (; ) was a global armed conflict involving Dutch forces, in the form of the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch West India Company, and their allies, against the Iberian Union, and after 1640, the Portuguese Empire. Beg ...

. was in service with the VOC until after 1606, possibly until after 1616. * Amsterdam (1605) was a 350-last () ship that was captured at

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on 25 April 1610 by the

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. * Amsterdam (1618) sighted

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together with Dordrecht (1618) near today's

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on 19 July 1619 under the command of Frederik de Houtman and Jacob Dedel at a latitude reported as 32°20’SCoventry Reef is situated at near Warnbro Sound. On their northward journey to Bantam,

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and

Houtman Abrolhos The Houtman Abrolhos (often called the Abrolhos Islands) is a chain of 122 islands and associated coral reefs in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia about west of Geraldton, Western Australia. It is the southernmost true coral r ...

were observed. * Amsterdam (1623) was a 400-last () ship also known as that sailed in a fleet of ten ships to Batavia on 29 April 1623, returning in a fleet of four ships on 21 September 1626. * Amsterdam (1632), from which the Western Australian coast around the latitude of

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was charted in 1635. * Amsterdam (1691) was a sloop that perished near

Bombay Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial centre, financial capital and the list of cities i ...

on 22 November 1702 en route to

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. * Amsterdam (1716) was a 400-last () ship that sailed to the East Indies five times, returning the last time on 13 July 1731. * Amsterdam (1740) was a 425-last () ship that perished with all hands lost at the

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in 1742 returning from Batavia. *

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

(1748) was a Dutch East Indiaman () that was wrecked in a storm on the

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on 26 January 1749 on its third attempt of its maiden voyage from

Texel Texel (; Texels dialect: ) is a municipality and an island with a population of 13,643 in North Holland, Netherlands. It is the largest and most populated island of the West Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. The island is situated north of Den ...

to Batavia. Its wreckage can be seen off

Bulverhythe Bulverhythe, also known as West St Leonards and Bo Peep, is a suburb of Hastings, East Sussex, England with its Esplanade and 15 ft thick sea wall. Bulverhythe is translated as "Burghers' landing place". It used to be under a small headlan ...

beach,

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, at very low tides. * Amsterdam (1772) was a 575-last () ship that sailed to the East Indies three times. On 17 May 1781 while at the

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returning the third time, was sent to

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to aid the

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allied in the

Fourth Anglo-Dutch War The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (; 1780–1784) was a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic. The war, contemporary with the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), broke out over British and Dutch disagreements on t ...

. The ship was laid up at the Cape early in 1784.

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