page_title: Francisco Pelsaert
section_title: Batavia
hierarchical_section_title: Francisco Pelsaert / Batavia
caption_attribution_description: English: Ongeluckige voyagie van het schip Batavia, uytgevaren onder't beleydt van den E. François Pelsaert, na Oost-Indien, en gebleven is op de Abrollos van Frederick Houtman ...&#160;: verhalende 't verongelucken des schips / en de grouwelijcke moozdery onder 't scheeps-volck / op 't eylandt Bataviers Kerckhof, nevens de justitie gedaen aen de moetwillige in de jaren 1628 en 1629, 1648, Francisco Pelsaert, State Library of New South Wales MRB/ 985/ P English: Ongeluckige voyagie van het schip Batavia, uytgevaren onder't beleydt van den E. François Pelsaert, na Oost-Indien, en gebleven is op de Abrollos van Frederick Houtman ...&#160;: verhalende 't verongelucken des schips / en de grouwelijcke moozdery onder 't scheeps-volck / op 't eylandt Bataviers Kerckhof, nevens de justitie gedaen aen de moetwillige in de jaren 1628 en 1629, 1648, Francisco Pelsaert, State Library of New South Wales MRB/ 985/ P
context_page_description: Francisco Pelsaert was a Dutch merchant who worked for the Dutch East India Company best known for his role as the commander of the Batavia. The ship ran aground in the Houtman Abrolhos, off the coastal regions of Western Australia in June 1629, which led to a bloody mutiny orchestrated by Jeronimus Cornelisz.
context_section_description: During the voyage from the Texel to Java, a company official, Jeronimus Cornelisz, and the ship's skipper Ariaen Jacobsz, had plotted but never attempted a mutiny against Pelsaert. Before this was possible, the ship had been wrecked. The wreck of the Batavia took place on Morning Reef, about 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) to the south of what is now known as Beacon Island. Of the 341 passengers and crew, about 40 drowned early on while trying to reach a small island, while the rest succeeded in getting ashore. After a brief search of the island and several nearby islands, the commander realized that the islands held no natural water source, and eventually decided to head for Batavia to get help. He left with the ship's longboat and a party of 48 officers and passengers, including one babe in arms. All survived the voyage.
  After the departure of Pelsaert, Cornelisz finally succeeded with his mutiny by gathering a group of mutineers and assuming control of the social situation. Cornelisz and his men then began a reign of terror, murdering over 100 men, women, and children before they finally found resistance from a group of soldiers under the command of Wiebbe Hayes, who had been exiled to a neighbouring island. In October 1629, after a four-month absence, Pelsaert returned to the islands on the Dutch East India Company’s ship Sardam. Cornelisz had been captured weeks earlier by Hayes' men, and he and his mutineers were tried and most were executed. After several weeks spent trying to salvage the Batavia's goods, Pelsaert and the survivors returned to Java.
caption: Ongeluckige voyagie van het schip Batavia, uytgevaren onder't beleydt van den E. François Pelsaert, 1648
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