This ship departed from Texel along with the Salm, which was taken by Dunkirk pirates 2 days into the voyage. It arrived first at Tortuga, with 80 passengers, 12 cows with calves, 4 horses, provisions, ammunition, merchant goods, boats for whaling, brick and tiles as ballast, and then eventually landed at the South River settlement in Delaware. They had intended to create a settlement on Tortuga but found that the Spanish had killed the French there, so probably felt that Spanish control of Tortuga would make it inhospitable.
NAHC Note: We have included information from both the Immigrants to New Netherland and the Voyages of New Netherland Database here, although they appear to be slightly different.
Immigrants to New Netherland
1630
In the Walvis
Captain Peter Heyes
Arrived at the South River (Swanendael)
In the Spring of 1631
28 settlers - were mennonites
(5 additional colonists, probably from New Amsterdam, joined the settlement, making a total of 33 on the South River. All but one was killed, Theunis Willemsen1
Another ship sailed with the Walvis, but was captured by the Dunkirkers.)
Collections of the NY Historical Society, 2d S, III 17.
The Swedish settlements on the Delaware, Amandus Johnson, 1911, p 170-1.
1 Van Rensselaer Bowier Mss, (c)1908; p 233.
crew Gillis Hosset, commissary
v_050 Van den Hout, Julie. "Voyages of New Netherland." https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/voyages-of-new-netherland