Glit Dragon 1656 (Vergulde Draeck) Shipwreck Survivor Camp and Surrounds.. Pt1
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The Vergulde Draeck (Gilt Dragon) sailed from Texel bound for Batavia (Jakarta), under Pieter Albertsz carrying trade goods and eight chests of silver to the value of 78,6000 guilders. On 28 April 1656 the Vergulde Draeck was wrecked just south of Ledge Point. 75 of the 193 made it to shore. A small boat was sent with the Understeersman and six others to Batavia (now Jakarta) arriving 40 days later. There they reported that as they sailed away they saw the other survivors trying to refloat a larger boat that had capsized in the surf while landing. Two vessels were sent south in search, but failed in difficult conditions to sight either the wreckage or the survivors. Eleven men and a boat were also lost during the search. In January 1658 two other ships were sent out in search but also proved unsuccessful. In searching for survivors, the jacht Goede Hoop and the Waeckende Boei lost boats and 10 men. A boat commanded by Abraham Leeman also disappeared, but it successfully returned to Batavia, arriving nearly six months after having been given up as lost. The wreck, the first of the Dutch and English East India ships found on the Western Australian coast, was discovered by five spear-fishermen (John Cowen; Jim, Alan and Graeme Henderson; and Alan Robinson ) in April 1963. After a period in which both it and the Batavia, (which was found later in the same year) were heavily looted shipwreck legislation was enacted, vesting the sites in the Western Australian Museum. Subsequently the remains were excavated by Jeremy Green and a report was published. Materials from the wreck are on exhibition.
You passed us on the track the day you were filming this. Great spot
We were there a few weeks back, its amazing what you miss when you don't know what's there! nice video Justin.
The V could be part of the acronym for the Dutch East India Company which was VOC. The logo was a large V with an O over one arm of the V and a C over the other.
The 'V' inscription on the cave wall is believed to be part of the Dutch East Indies Company emblem of a big 'V' with a small 'o and c' making it 'VOC' which is an abbreviation of the companies name in Dutch: Vereenigde Nederlandsche Geoctroyeerde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC).
Wow, such a beautiful area and very interesting story behind it!
enjoyed that thx JJ
I can just imagine how scared they must have been shipwrecked back then.
Thanks for the video.
You're welcome
"What tosspot leaves bloody glass..." 😄
Yep, am old TC or TC Cortina, nice vid
Great videos, you do a thorough job. Any chance of getting gps coordinates?
The inscription: DVD - De Vergulde Draeck.
Most interesting. Thanks for sharing. I will add it to my to-do list, but in my case on a bikepacking on a fat bike. I don't suppose you have an uploaded route by any chance? The off-road sections that is.
I have got them, I will have to put a couple of different GPS tracks together.
@@jjsadv Even separately would be cool thanks. Will you upload them somewhere?
@@AndrewPriest You got an email address? and what format do you prefer? KML, GPX, OZi Explorer?
@@jjsadv GPX is fine thanks. Email is andrew@aushiker.com.
Great Video..!
I also enjoyed your Zuytdorp Videos.
I went and checked out the cave after seeing this.
I want to do a dive on the Gilt Dragon wreck site, purely to see it and do some Video footage, would you know if permission is needed to visit the wreck site? Cheers👍
I dont think you need permission for that one, but if you find anything you are suppose to leave it, or notify the museum. They normally let you keep it I am told, they just want it cataloged.
I dont speak Dutch but I do speak a language similar to Dutch. A better translation of the ships
name would be The Guilded Dragon.. Not that it matters of course.
I do am a Native Dutch. And you are absolutely right 👍🏻😁
Hey mate great video, what happens if you do find a silver coin out that way?
You tell the Museum, they record it and your details, and then give it back. You get to keep it, but technically the government and museum own it.
JJ's Adventures Thanks mate appreciate your reply. I would love to get up that way and search for some and would definitely get them documented so we could legally keep them. The chances are pretty slim to find me though but I have heard after a big storm is probably the best chance. I subscribe to you from this channel but check out our channel the outback Detectorists W.A. I will subscribe from that channel to you as well
@@Marcrussophotography I sub to your detector channel. Have done for a while now:).
JJ's Adventures ahh cheers mate! Always keen to meet up for a search for these coins or relics if you ever want to👌
@@TheOutbackDetectoristsWA watching your videos. I don’t think you need any help. You guys clean up. 😀
Hey mate have you ever heard of many fake coins coming from this wreck? Apparently look really good to like realistic
In the 1960's a few extremely realistic copies of Gilt Dragon coins were made with genuine shipwreck silver from the wreck.
For a short time (until the Government changed the rules and accused him of looting) one of my U.E.C. dive instructors, Alan Robinson, had the salvage rights to the treasure. When I dived (almost 60 years ago) on the wreck with him, most of the 40,000 silver coins would still have been ‘cemented’ into a conglomerate of hundreds of ballast bricks and earthenware jugs in a limestone cave (the petrified remains of the ship’s hold).
To make copies for a private collection, badly corroded coin fragments were melted down by a Perth jeweler and poured into molds made from the best coins found on the wreck.
No fraud was ever intended, but later some of these found their way into the coin market and were sold as ‘genuine’ Gilt Dragon coins.
Today there are 20,000 genuine coins unaccounted for and only 4,288 Gilt Dragon coins legally held by private individuals. So their rarity is seeing prices of A$6,000 or more each.
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