Shipwreck Databases

Western Australian Museum

ZT4149 - Silver

Zuiddorp (Zuytdorp)

Coin fragments: silver.

Site Area Code Mid-West

Number of Items 2

Material Silver

Museum Reference

Registration Number 4149

ID 19096

Status Commonwealth

Map of shipwreck

Zuiddorp (Zuytdorp)

This is the only ship that needs permission to dive on in WA. Protected zone 500 m around wreck. On 1 August 1711 Zuytdorp also Zuiddorp (meaning ‘South village’) was dispatched from the Netherlands to the trading port of Batavia. It never arrived at its destination. No search was undertaken, since there was no idea where the ship was lost. The crew were never heard from again. In 1834,...