VOC ship Candia (1788)

Candia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; VOC) which only once traveled for Asia in 1790 and never returned to the Netherlands.

Construction
Candia was an East Indiaman ship built for the Chamber of Rotterdam of the Dutch East India Company in 1788 in the Rotterdam shipyards, as a 1150-ton ship with a length of 45.73 m.

History
On 26 October 1790 the Candia left Europe from the island of Goeree for its travel to Batavia under the command of captain Dirk Dirksz Varkevisser (1758-1805), who previously had command over the VOC ship Middelwijk in 1786 and 1787. The ship left with 186 people on board. It arrived for a stop at Cape Town on 13 February 1791, disembarking 20 persons. On the passage to Cape Town 3 persons had perished. Departing on 23 March 1791, it finally arrived in Batavia on 15 June 1791, where it was sold in 1796 and broken up.

Visible remainder
The Dutch maritime painter Gerrit Groenewegen (1754-1826) created a depiction of the Candia in 1789, while still in Dutch waters near Rotterdam, giving a good impression of the appearance of the Dutch Spiegelretourschip in those days.