Group blog
a blog about the life and work of sailors. It is maintained by historians Jelle van Lottum and Lodewijk Petram.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
sailor’s biographies Featured Sailors on 19th and 20th-c Dutch merchant marine Shipping companies’ records VOC pay ledgers 20th century Maps
VOC Sailors’ Last Days in Europe
19 April 2023
Our new Dutch-language book, In de schaduw van de stad (Amsterdam: Ambo|Anthos 2023), which tells a series of short stories about ‘ordinary’ Amsterdammers through the ages, includes...
6 March 2023
We recently wrote an article about English sailors in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). They made up only a tiny fraction of the crews: during the eighteenth century,...
Where Dutch seafarers on Belgian merchant vessels came from (1845-1885)
23 September 2021
In an earlier post, our colleague Kristof Loockx, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, wrote about the Antwerp seamen’s registry–a great source for maritime historical...
Dutch merchant seamen in Belgian sources
25 May 2021
Seafarers have never been bound to a particular flag, which makes it challenging to reconstruct their careers. In this post, Kristof Loockx, postdoctoral researcher at the University...