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Meermin (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmeːrmɪn] (listen)) was an 18th-century Dutch cargo ship of the hoeker type, one of many built and owned by the Dutch East India Company. She was laid down in 1759 and fitted out as a slave ship before her maiden voyage in 1761, and her career was cut short by a mutiny of her cargo of Malagasy people. They had been sold to Dutch East India Company officials on Madagascar , to be used as company slaves in its Cape Colony in southern Africa. Half her crew and almost 30 Malagasy lost their lives in the mutiny; the mutineers deliberately allowed the ship to drift aground off Struisbaai, now in South Africa, in March 1766, and she broke up in situ. As of 2013, archaeologists are searching for the Meermin's remains.

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  2. "Meermin 1759". VOCsite.nl. 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2012; Chandler 2009. http://www.vocsite.nl/schepen/detail.html?id=10670
  3. Different sources describe the Meermin as a two-masted or single-masted ship of 450 tons, but, having examined the ship's plans, archaeologist Jaco Boshoff confirmed that she was one of the rarer, and heavier, oak-built three-masters.[2] The ship's plans are held at the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam, and are available to view online in low resolution.[3] The ship type "hoeker" was named after its original purpose, using baited hooks to catch fish,[4] and distinctive features of a hoeker are the "apple cheeks" of the bow.[5] This ship's name, "Meermin", is Dutch for "mermaid".[6]
  4. Konijnenburg, van 1913, pp. 93–4, 96.
  5. Collins 2001, p. 67; Konijnenburg, van 1913, pp. 66, 72, 96.
  6. Konijnenburg, van 1913, p. 96; "Scheepstypen van de VOC" (Hoeker). VOCsite.nl. 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2012. http://www.vocsite.nl/schepen/scheepstypen.html
  7. "Dutch East India Company, Trade Network, 18th Century". Hofstra University. 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2012. http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch2en/conc2en/map_VOC_Trade_Network.html
  8. Collins 2001, p. 69.
  9. "Scheepstypen van de VOC" (Hoeker). VOCsite.nl. 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2012. http://www.vocsite.nl/schepen/scheepstypen.html
  10. Chandler 2009; Konijnenburg, van 1913, p. 47; "Algemeen plan en spantenraam van de hoeker 'De Meermin'". Maritiem Digitaal. Retrieved 21 February 2012. http://www.maritiemdigitaal.nl/index.cfm?event=search.getdetail&id=101002921
  11. Chandler 2009; "Slave Ship Mutiny Program Transcript". Educational Broadcasting Corporation. 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2012. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/transcripts/slave-ship-mutiny-program-transcript/755/
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  13. "Meermin 1759". VOCsite.nl. 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2012. http://www.vocsite.nl/schepen/detail.html?id=10670
  14. "Slave Ship Mutiny Program Transcript". Educational Broadcasting Corporation. 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2012. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/transcripts/slave-ship-mutiny-program-transcript/755/
  15. Webster 2008, pp. 8–9.
  16. Mountain 2005, p. 204.
  17. The sources use various 18th-century Dutch terms, not all of which are easily translated into modern English: Captain Muller's rank is given as "Gesaghebber"; the magistrate from Stellenbosch was a "Landdrost".[22]
  18. "Slave Ship Mutiny Program Transcript". Educational Broadcasting Corporation. 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2012; Alexander 2007b, pp. 87, 89; Alexander 2007a; Mountain 2005, p. 204; Malan 2008. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/transcripts/slave-ship-mutiny-program-transcript/755/
  19. The exact number of Malagasy on Meermin is unknown, since officers on VOC ships carried out their own, undeclared trade, to the extent that this is how "most slaves actually got to the Cape [Colony]";[20] it was also a cause of severe over-crowding on slave ships.[20] Some of the Malagasy gave their number as 150.[24]
  20. Alexander 2007b, p. 89.
  21. Alexander 2007b, p. 89; Mountain 2005, p. 204; "Slave Ship Mutiny Program Transcript". Educational Broadcasting Corporation. 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2012. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/transcripts/slave-ship-mutiny-program-transcript/755/
  22. Alexander 2007b, pp. 102–3; "Secrets of the Dead: Slave Ship Mutiny". Educational Broadcasting Corporation. 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2012. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/featured/slave-ship-mutiny-about-this-episode/674/
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  24. Alexander 2007b, p. 89; "Slave Ship Mutiny Program Transcript". Educational Broadcasting Corporation. 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2012. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/transcripts/slave-ship-mutiny-program-transcript/755/
  25. Alexander 2007b, p. 90; "Slave Ship Mutiny Program Transcript". Educational Broadcasting Corporation. 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2012. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/transcripts/slave-ship-mutiny-program-transcript/755/
  26. "The Meermin Story: The Story Begins...". Iziko Museums. 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2012; Mountain 2005, p. 204. https://web.archive.org/web/20070315190545/http://media1.mweb.co.za/meermin/view.asp?pg=story1
  27. "The Meermin Story: Surrender". Iziko Museums. 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20070315190618/http://media1.mweb.co.za/meermin/view.asp?pg=story2a
  28. "The Meermin". Mermaid Guest House. Retrieved 13 February 2012; "Meermin 1759". VOCsite.nl. 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2012; LaFraniere 2005. http://www.mermaidguesthouse.com/index.php?p=Meermin-story
  29. "The Meermin Story". Iziko Museums. 2007. Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070310161331/http://media1.mweb.co.za/meermin/view.asp?pg=story. Retrieved 4 February 2012. 
  30. "Finding Meermin". Iziko Museums. 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2012. http://www.iziko.org.za/calendar/event/finding-meermin
  31. Chandler 2009.
  32. "Slave ship still eludes dogged scientists". IOL. 14 November 2013. http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/slave-ship-still-eludes-dogged-scientists-1.1606990. Retrieved 17 February 2014. 
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