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Voorschoten (1684) Note: On 31 December 1687 the Voorschoten left Delftshaven in the Netherlands
with the first 22 Huguenot refugees on board. The three master was supposed to sail directly to the Cape. However,
as the result of storm damage captain Frans Villierius was forced to land at Saldanha Bay on 13 April 1688, about 120 km from Table Bay.
A message was sent by a Hottentot messenger to the governor
Simon van der Stel at the Castle of Good Hope. The cutter Jupiter was then dispatched to fetch the stranded passengers.
A further six ships –the Oosterland, Borsenburg, Schelde, Berg China, Zuid-Beveland
and Wapen van Alkmaar -brought other Huguenots to the Cape.
