The ship bell bears the name "Kronprinsessen af Danmark" (Crown Princess of Denmark) and is furnished with the monogram DAC (Danish Asiatic Company) and the year 1745 which is the year for the construction of the ship by the same name.
Due to a Danish trade monopoly issued by the Danish king, the shareholding Asiatic Company was for many years in the eighteenth century the only stakeholder in Denmark that had the right to trade with India and China.
Almost every year, the Danish Asiatic Company completed at least two voyages to Asia to purchase especially Indian cotton and pepper as well as Chinese tea and porcelain. The trips are very well documented through ship protocols and ships' logs which give a very good insight into the working and living conditions of the crew on board.
The ship "Kronprincessen af Danmark" (Crown Princess of Denmark) was on a voyage to and from Tranquebar in the years 1748-50. From this travel the Danish National Archives store the ship protocol, i.e. the official diary for the ship. The sources provide insight into life on board the ship with a crew of 125 men and a large cargo of food also consisting of sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, and turkeys to be slaughtered en route since the ship had autorisation to go ashore only at very few places on the route to Tranqubar. We must assume that in the load was also a large amount of silver coins for the purchase of wares in Tranquebar since experience had shown that it was very difficult to sell Danish fabricated products there. The sources on this voyage reflect various dramatic conflicts and lawsuits during the voyage. One of them was of a corporal who had made death threats against the captain and the chief officer. Another was about the kitchen chef's unsanitary cooking which ended with the chef committing suicide.
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Ship bell (skibsklokke)
The ship bell bears the name "Kronprinsessen af Danmark" (Crown Princess of Denmark) and is furnished with the monogram DAC (Danish Asiatic Company) and the year 1745 which is the year for the construction of the ship by the same name.
Due to a Danish trade monopoly issued by the Danish king, the shareholding Asiatic Company was for many years in the eighteenth century the only stakeholder in Denmark that had the right to trade with India and China.
Almost every year, the Danish Asiatic Company completed at least two voyages to Asia to purchase especially Indian cotton and pepper as well as Chinese tea and porcelain. The trips are very well documented through ship protocols and ships' logs which give a very good insight into the working and living conditions of the crew on board.
The ship "Kronprincessen af Danmark" (Crown Princess of Denmark) was on a voyage to and from Tranquebar in the years 1748-50. From this travel the Danish National Archives store the ship protocol, i.e. the official diary for the ship. The sources provide insight into life on board the ship with a crew of 125 men and a large cargo of food also consisting of sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, and turkeys to be slaughtered en route since the ship had autorisation to go ashore only at very few places on the route to Tranqubar. We must assume that in the load was also a large amount of silver coins for the purchase of wares in Tranquebar since experience had shown that it was very difficult to sell Danish fabricated products there. The sources on this voyage reflect various dramatic conflicts and lawsuits during the voyage. One of them was of a corporal who had made death threats against the captain and the chief officer. Another was about the kitchen chef's unsanitary cooking which ended with the chef committing suicide.
