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Westerbeek
''Westerbeek'' was a Dutch East India Company sailing ship, built in 1722 in Amsterdam. It was long and 650 tons.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Historici )〕
== The accident ==
The ship was wrecked at Lopranseiði on the west coast of Suðuroy, Faroe Islands on 2 September 1742. In those days it was necessary either to see the stars or the sun in order to navigate a ship, that is to know how far north or how far south the ship was. The crew of ''Westerbeek'' had not seen the sun because of fog for 11 days on the day of the accident, and because of that they went too far north. Too late they realized, that they were about to sail directly on land, and the ship went on land between four skerries and a sea cliff of Suðuroy on Lopranseiði. The accident happened on ''Westerbeek''s 6th voyage from the Dutch East Indies. The captain of this voyage was Hermanus Schutten. The cargo was usually tea, coffee, pepper and other spices. The voyage to the East Indies could take up to one year, and often the ships were away from home several years, before returning home.
On 2 September 1742 around 10:30 at night ''Westerbeek'' ran on land south of Lopranseiði and sank between the four skerries and the island of Suðuroy. Ten of the men never had the time to leave their beds, as they were lying there because of illness. Three men died before the accident and were buried at sea. 81 of the men reached land after the accident, but one of them fell and died while attempting to climb the steep hill where the ship wrecked. They climbed on land through the broken mast of the ship. Then they tied together some oars and then some of the strongest of the men climbed up the hill to get help. Lopra was not a village at that time. The nearest populated places were Vágur and Sumba. A few men went towards north and arrived to Vágur, where they got help. The legend says, that some people from Vágur were in the church and that the men from ''Westerbeek'' got help from them there.
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