Not directly related, but interesting nonetheless, I think ...
I am guessing this is the very same Batavia ship of this real-life horror story of mutiny, murder, rape, etcetera.
I am guessing this is the very same Batavia ship of this real-life horror story of mutiny, murder, rape, etcetera.
> Cornelisz and several of the major mutineers had both hands chopped off before being hanged.
> The remaining mutineers were taken to Batavia for trial. Five were hanged, while several others were flogged, keelhauled or dropped from the yardarm on the later voyage back home. Cornelisz' second in command, Jacop Pietersz, was broken on the wheel, the most severe punishment available at the time.
Though luck for Pelsaert because the VOC still thought that was too little too late:
> A board of inquiry decided that Pelsaert had exercised a lack of authority and was therefore partly responsible for what had happened.