Nicobar (1782 DAC ship)

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Nicobar, was an East Indiaman of the Danish Asiatic Company, built at Asiatisk Plads in 1782.

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Construction

The Nicobar was built on the Danish Asiatic Company's own dockyard in 1781. [1] She was the 24th ship launched from Asiatisk Plads. [2]

Career

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An example of plate money

The Nicobar was sent to Tranquebar in 1782. She was under the command of Capt. Andreas Christie. Her travel pass (afgangspas) was issued in May 1782. [1] She arrived in False Bay in May 1783 and accepted several additional passengers. [3] Some of the new passengers had just narrowly survived a shipwreck. [4] [3]

The Nicobar was wrecked on 11 July 1783, two months after arriving in False Bay, while departing for Bengal. Most of the crew, including several lascars, perished. [5] Only 11 crew members survived. [1]

In 1922, historian George McCall Theal made a note of the wreck in his posthumous History of Africa, saying that she "ran ashore near Cape Agulhas". [6] Two fishermen discovered her wreck off Quoin Point in 1987. Three thousand examples of Swedish plate money were subsequently salvaged from the wreck. [7] [3] According to CoinWorld , many of the extant examples of lower-denomination plate money are from the Nicobar. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Enkeltskibser: Nicobar". jmarcussen.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  2. ↑ "Asiatisk Kompagni - Skibene". jmarcussen.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 Stevenson, J (1989-12-03). "Coins: A 43-pound copper plate coin hardly fits the description of pocket change". The New York Times . p. 91.
  4. ↑ Titlestad, M. (2022). Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. p. 41.
  5. ↑ Hofmeyr, Isabel; Lavery, Charne; Nuttall, Sarah, eds. (2023). Reading for Water. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   9781000937138.
  6. ↑ Theal, George McCall (1922). History of Africa South of the Zambesi. Vol. 3. G. Allen & Unwin Limited. p. 222 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Catsambis, Alexis; Ford, Ben; Hamilton, Donny, eds. (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology. Oxford University Press. p. 482.
  8. ↑ "Swedish copper plate money from shipwreck in auction". CoinWorld. Retrieved 2025-03-01.
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