Coping with the Perils of the Sea
The Last Voyage of Vrouw Maria in 1771
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12124516 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oscar Gelderblom (0000-0003-3083-8747, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 95-115 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Maritime History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0843-8714 • E-ISSN: 2052-7756 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/084387140301500206 |
| OpenAlex | W2330838555 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
the Dutch ship Vrouw Maria left Amsterdam for St.Petersburg.A month later, in the evening of 3 October, the vessel encountered a heavy storm near Turku (Abo), where it was holed by a rock and began to take on water.The master, Reynoud Lourens, ordered his crew to start pumping.Throughout the night nine men worked to save the craft.By the next morning most of the water was indeed pumped out, but the leak was not stopped.In this hopeless situation Lourens gave the order to abandon ship.The crew sought refuge on a nearby island, where local fishermen found them the next evening.Over the next few days the crew and the local salvage company returned to the vessel every day to try to salvage as much cargo as possible.It was only upon their arrival on 9 October that they discovered that Vrouw Maria had sunk.Vrouw Maria was one of many merchantmen lost in Finnish waters in the eighteenth century.Unlike most of these ships, this wreck was found almost intact in 1999.This led the Finnish Maritime Museum to investigate it thoroughly to decide whether it should be raised.In this essay the story of Vrouw Maria is told from a Dutch perspective.Building on the work of the Finnish scholar Christian Ahlstrom," it reconstructs both the preparations for the vessel's last
Coping (psychology · Clinical Psychology · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Psychology · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |