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Not directly related, but interesting nonetheless, I think ... I am guessing this is the very same Batavia ship of this real-life horror story of mutiny, murde
by wsc981 5y ago
Not directly related, but interesting nonetheless, I think ...
I am guessing this is the very same Batavia ship of this real-life horror story of mutiny, murder, rape, etcetera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(1628_ship) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(1628_ship)
- schnitzelstoat 5y agoThe Casefile podcast has a really good episode on the shipwreck.
- funwares 5y agoBatavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash is a book I'd highly recommend to anyone wanting to do a deep dive into this truly bizarre story.
- jsiepkes 5y agoYeah the story of the Batavia makes the Star Trek mirror universe empire seem like a bunch of boy scouts compared how the VOC ran things. > Cornelisz and several of the major mutineers had both hands chopped off before being hanged. > The remaining mutineers were taken to Batavia for trial. Five were hanged, while several others were flogged, keelhauled or dropped from the yardarm on the later voyage back home. Cornelisz' second in command, Jacop Pietersz, was broken on the wheel, the most severe punishment available at the time. Though luck for Pelsaert because the VOC still thought that was too little too late: > A board of inquiry decided that Pelsaert had exercised a lack of authority and was therefore partly responsible for what had happened.
- satori99 5y agoTwo of the mutineers were also left (to die) on the Australian mainland in 1628 -- 140 years before Australia was "Discovered" by James Cook.
- dustintrex 5y agoNone of that seems particularly bad compared to the orgy of rape and murder orchestrated by Cornelisz and co, who are estimated to have killed 125 of the passangers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(1628_ship) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(1628_ship)