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} |} The ''Meermin'' () was an 18th-century Dutch cargo ship of the ''hoeker'' type, one of many built and owned by the Dutch East India Company. She was laid down in 1759 and fitted out as a slave ship before her maiden voyage in 1761, and her career was cut short by a mutiny of her cargo of Malagasy people. They had been sold to Dutch East India Company officials on Madagascar, to be used as company slaves in its Cape Colony in southern Africa. Half her crew and almost 30 Malagasy lost their lives in the mutiny; the mutineers deliberately allowed the ship to drift aground off Struisbaai, now in South Africa, in March 1766, and she broke up ''in situ''. As of 2013, archaeologists are searching for the ''Meermin''s remains. ==Construction and use== The ''Meermin'' was laid down in 1759 in a shipyard belonging to the Dutch East India Company (''Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie'', abbreviated to "VOC") in the port of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.〔("''Meermin 1759''" ). VOCsite.nl. 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2012; ; .〕 The ''Meermin'' was a 480-ton Dutch ''hoeker'', square rigged with three masts.〔("''Meermin 1759''" ). VOCsite.nl. 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2012; .〕 The ''hoeker'' originated in the 15th century as a type of fishing vessel with one or two masts in response to the growing Dutch trade in herring, and was known in English as a hoy.〔; .〕 Equipped with guns, ''hoekers'' were employed as defensive escorts for fishing fleets, or ''Buisconvoyers'', in the Second Anglo-Dutch War of the 1660s.〔; ("Scheepstypen van de VOC" (Hoeker) ). VOCsite.nl. 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2012.〕 They came to be used more widely in trade with the Dutch East Indies via the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa,〔("Dutch East India Company, Trade Network, 18th Century" ). Hofstra University. 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2012.〕 as their rounded sterns proved to be more resistant to warping and springing than square sterns, which were prone to "catastrophic leaking when exposed to strong sun." Larger than most ''hoekers'',〔("Scheepstypen van de VOC" (Hoeker) ). VOCsite.nl. 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2012.〕 the ''Meermin'' was unusual for her type in that she was built of oak and had a beakhead, a feature not normally present in smaller merchant vessels.〔; ; ("Algemeen plan en spantenraam van de hoeker 'De Meermin'" ). Maritiem Digitaal. Retrieved 21 February 2012.〕 The ''Meermin'' was built for use as a slave ship in the VOC's African trade;〔; ("Slave Ship Mutiny Program Transcript" ). Educational Broadcasting Corporation. 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2012.〕 between 1658 and 1799 the VOC acquired and transported 63,000 slaves to its Cape Colony, now part of South Africa.〔("History of Slavery: The first slaves at the Cape" ). Rebirth.co.za. 2000. Retrieved 19 February 2012; ("''Amersfoort 1655''" ). VOCsite.nl. 2012. Retrieved 16 February 2012; ("Dutch East India Company, Trade Network, 18th Century" ). Hofstra University. 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2012; 〕 The ship began her maiden voyage at Texel, an island off the coast of what is now the Netherlands, on 21 January 1761, with a crew of 62 under the command of Captain Hendrik Worms; she arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 15 June.〔("''Meermin 1759''" ). VOCsite.nl. 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2012.〕 Although fitted out as a slave ship,〔("Slave Ship Mutiny Program Transcript" ). Educational Broadcasting Corporation. 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2012.〕 vessels such as the ''Meermin'' routinely carried other goods when not transporting slaves. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meermin (VOC ship)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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