Bell in a Shipwreck

[Argee]

I'm argee, currently President/CEO of Frontier Sealand Research Foundation Inc. and Oriental Underwater Archeological Research Corporation. Our Company is engaged in Shipwreck (Galleon) recovery in partnership with the Philippine National Museum and being Finance by Open Waters Party Ltd of Malta.

We have excavated a Bell in still Unidentified galleon with markings " Van Tomas Antonis Z IAAR 1722 den 24 April ter Gedact ". Also the following Artifacts: a steel box with mark " D. BENNETT EXECUTION DOCK WAPPING LONDON, A Copper Plate with marking "E I C" within a heartshape also engraved.

Based on our limited research, this is a Dutch East India Company Ship wreck. Can you help us identify the ship?

Thank you!

Argee

 

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[Gypsy Heart]

Hope this helps

Shipping from Execution Dock was noted London whaling firm, Daniel Bennett.





http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/blackheath/thebc46.htm

By 29 January, 1795 the ship Young William, owned by Daniel Bennett, was initially found unfit by the Victualling Commissioners to be sent to Sydney. The situation was righted and she sailed in company with storeship Sovereign, 362 tons, ([2]) An example of a shipman listed by Shelton, but not by Bateson, is in Shelton's Contract No 11, dated 27 January, 1795, with Alexander Towers, for Sovereign, Captain George Storey. (There is no information at all on Towers, but it may have been that Towers had interests in India, as Sovereign and Captain George Storey appear to have illustrated some connection between India and Sydney via the activities of a young Scots merchant Robert Campbell, who later moved to Sydney.



Daniel Bennett, later of Blackheath, was becoming ambitious not only about whaling, but East India trade. Shelton's Account No. 12 of 17 October, 1795 was taken with him for Indispensible. Shelton charged ?143/5/8d, mentioning 149 convicts, and he noted mysteriously... "Copy certificate of Conviction of Rachel Turner by Mr. Pollocks desire and delivered same to Mr White, Surgeon-General of NSW to take out with him .... The like of Margaret Dawson." It appears that by some variation of procedures, Rachel Turner had been delivered into White's personal care.

This is a little mysterious, as it is not clear why a Bennett ship sailing London-Sydney-China would go to South Georgia. However, the London Missionary Society before it sent out Duff had considered helping fit out a ship named Sally to take missionaries into the Pacific, but it is not known it this was Guillaume's ship
By October 1798, another whaler for NSW was Indispensable, voyage 3, Capt. William Wilkinson, owned by Daniel Bennett. ([64]) By 15 April, 1799 ([65]) the Newcastle whalers Hurry were sending a brig from London, or Yarmouth, for Ya Baltic, and they would provide a convict transport Ocean in 1803 to be sent to Port Phillip, then Hobart, to help create another new convict colony.

From 1798 ([70]) the London whaler Elligood owned by Daniel Bennett, Capt. Christopher Dixon, made a little-known voyage to the African coast. It appears by 27 August, 1800 she was at Kangaroo Island on the southern Australian coast - possibly wrecked there by 1802. A Cape Town newspaper in May 1801 reported Elligood returned to that port that month, with the master and nine men dead by scurvy. A mystery - was she the wreck found on King Island in Bass Strait in 1802? - has only recently been cleared up by Rhys Richards.

 

[Capt Tom]

Reading the replies about the bell it looks like the date on the bell has little to do with the date of build or the name of the ship lost. From the other artifacts mentioned I would guess that a date of loss in more 1791 to 1805 era and a ship used on charter to the English East India Company not the Dutch. Were there any cannon found, or VOC symbol seen ?.