The website VOC - Seafarers is a joint initiative of the National Archives (where the VOC archives are located), the Municipal Archives of Delft, the Municipal Archives of Rotterdam, the Zeeland Archive, the Archives of West Friesland (Hoorn and Enkhuizen), the City Archives of Amsterdam and the history faculties of the University of Leiden and the University of Gent.
The information from the ship’s pay-registers are linked to the tables in Dutch Asiatic Shipping in the 17th and 18th centuries, J.R.Bruijn, F.S. Gaastra and I. Schöffer with the assistance of E.S. van Eyck van Heslinga, RGP 165 – 167, 1979 – 1987. These tables can also be found on the website of the
Institute of Netherlands History (ING)
Realisation
Project management and text: drs A.J.M. (Ton) van Velzen
Academic expertise: professor Dr. F.S. Gaastra and Dr. J. Parmentier
Design and interactive project: Eden Design & Communication
Technical realisation and project management: Mindbus
Data-entry: Combiwerk, Delft
English translation: P.H.A. Hoeberigs BA
The website VOC - Seafarers was also made possible with financial contributions of the municipalities of Delft, Rotterdam, Hoorn and Enkhuizen, the Directorate of the Baltic Trade and Shipping Companies, the Netherlands Foundation for the Stimulation of the Nation's Marine Services, the Admiral van Kinsbergen Foundation and the VSB Foundation of West-Friesland.
The data-entry of the Zeeland Chamber was also made possible with financial contributions of the European Fund for Regional Development, with as joint financial contributors the provinces of East Flanders, West Flanders and Zeeland, The Netherlands Ministry of Education Culture and Science (National Archives and the Zeeland Archives) and the Flemish Government.
The data-entry of the Amsterdam Chamber was also made possible with financial assistance from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research or NWO.
The depiction on the homepage is a pen sketch of J.H. Koekkoek (1778-1851), 'The signing on of seamen', from the historical topographical atlas of the Royal Zeeland Association of the Sciences.
Administration
The website VOC - Seafarers is administrated by the National Archives of the Netherlands