VOC ship Candia, engraving by G. Groenewegen 1789
History
Dutch Republic
Name	Candia
Owner	Dutch East India Company
Builder	Rotterdam Dockyard
Launched	1788
Maiden voyage	26 October 1790
Out of service	1796
Fate	Dismantled, 1796
General characteristics
Type	Spiegelretourschip
Tons burthen	1150 tons
Length	45.73 m (150 ft 0 in)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship

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.

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 metres (150.0 ft).^[1]

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),^[2] who previously had command over the VOC ship Middelwijk in 1786 and 1787.^[3] The ship left with 186 people on board.^[4] 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.

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.

• Bruijn, Jaap R. (2011). Commanders of Dutch East India ships in the eighteenth century. Boydell Prress. ISBN 978-1-84383-622-3. OCLC 768529539.

• Candia original books from 1790
• Information at Huygens ING
• Scan of Bruijn, J. R. (2011) on Google Books, Retrieved 27 February 2020