SHIPWRECK TREASURE VOC Campen Sank AD 1627 Isle of Wight Silver Lion Daalder Spanish Netherlands Zeeland Mint AD 1617

£325.00

Code: HMC655

SHIPWRECK TREASURE VOC Campen Sank 1627AD Isle of Wight Silver Lion Daalder Spanish Netherlands Zeeland Mint 1617AD

41mm, 26.23g

This coin comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from ‘World Treasure Books’ who sold this previously.

Remains of 1627 wreck of Dutch East Indiaman, described as a “yacht”, which stranded near the Middle Needle, while attempting to “thread the Needles” to reach the Solent for shelter during a storm. Her compatriot, the VLIEGENDE DRAAK (896133), was also lost. Outward-bound from Amsterdam to Jakarta, with lead, silver, coin and passengers, she was a wooden sailing vessel. The diver Jacob Johnson recovered material from both wrecks, as he had done for the English East Indiaman MOON off the coast of Kent in 1625 and petitioned to do for a Spanish ship off the Lizard in the aftermath of this wreck (1318138).
Lying in less than 10m, her hull was accessible, and she was stripped, her guns, anchors, some of the lead and her specie being recovered by Jacob Johnson, an early Dutch diver. Relocated in June 1979 by Northampton BS-AC, 103 ingots of 62kg and some 2,000 coins and artefacts were recovered.

03-FEB-1981: CAMPEN has been located just east of the Needles Lighthouse. Salvage work being carried out by Northampton BS-AC.

The wreck was found by Kevin Punch and Northampton BSAC in June 1979 and they initially raised a pig of lead along with pieces of eight and some Dutch coins. The CAMPEN had run aground off the Middle Needle while attempting to find shelter in the Solent.The wreck remains were pored over, guns, anchors and substantial quantities of her cargo were recovered by local people. The Dutch East India Company employed the services of Jacob Johnson “Jacob the dyver” to salvage the site; after the Duke of Buckingham’s death he left the site to work on the silver wreck off the Lizard and a Spanish wreck off Castlehaven. However, he returned to the Needles in later years, and accounted for the recovery of 12 tons of lead ballast in 1631.

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