The Most Disturbing Mutiny and Shipwreck in History

A video on YouTube. In True Crime & Mysteries, a Krater category.

Summary by Krater

This video recounts the harrowing 1629 voyage of the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia, which wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos islands and descended into mutiny, murder, and mass execution under the leadership of Jeronimus Cornelisz.

From the video

Answers: What happened during the Batavia shipwreck and mutiny?

Batavia shipwreck
1629 maritime disaster
Houtman Abrolhos mutiny
Jeronimus Cornelisz
Wiebbe Hayes resistance
VOC ship history
beacon island massacres

What it concludes

Jeronimus Cornelisz engineered a brutal mutiny on Beacon Island, leading to the murder of over 100 men, women, and children.
Wiebbe Hayes successfully organized the survivors on West Wallabi Island, discovered fresh water, built stone fortifications, and resisted the mutineers.
Francisco Pelsaert returned with the rescue ship Saardam, defeated the mutineers, and brought the survivors to Batavia.
Jeronimus was sentenced to the breaking wheel and executed, while most other mutineers were hanged on Seal Island.
The Batavia shipwreck site was located in 1963, and its remains can now be viewed at the Western Australia Museum.

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