Everything about Olivier Van Noort totally explained
Olivier van Noort (
1558 -
22 February 1627) was the first
Dutchman to
circumnavigate the world.
Olivier van Noort was born in
1558 in
Utrecht. He left
Rotterdam on
2 July,
1598 with four ships and a plan to attack Spanish possessions in the
Pacific and to trade with
China and the
Spice Islands. His ships were poorly equipped, especially in the way of armament and the crews were unruly. Nonetheless, van Noort sailed through the
Magellan Strait, and captured a number of ships (Spanish and otherwise) in the Pacific. He lost two ships on the way due to a storm, one was lost in an engagement with the
Spanish near the bay of
Manila in the
Philippines. The Spanish lost their flag ship, the galleon
San Diego, the wreck of which was found in 1992 and yielded a treasure in
porcelain and gold pieces.
Van Noort returned to Rotterdam via the
Dutch East Indies and the Cape on
26 August,
1601 with his last ship, the
Mauritius, and 45 of originally 248 men. The venture barely broke even, but was the inspiration for more such expeditions, which later led to the formation of the united
Dutch East India Company.
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