3-052-403 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Lieutenant Koolemans-Beynen, Royal Dutch Navy, 1880. Engraving from a photograph by Wegner and Mottu, of Amsterdam. 'The death of this distinguished officer, who was well known to some of our own countrymen engaged in maritime and geographical exploration, has lately been mentioned with regret. It will be remembered that Lt. Koolemans-Beynen, having served in the Sumatra squadron, and on shore in the naval brigade at Achin, joined, by permission of Sir Allen Young, the two voyages of the Pandora, acting in the first as fourth lieutenant. He was appointed by the Netherlands Government to accompany that ship in her first voyage, to instruct himself in Arctic navigation. He was a second time a volunteer, by the desire of the Dutch Government, and again joined Sir Allen Young's vessel as an executive officer. Between the two voyages he edited a volume containing an account of the three voyages of his countryman, Willem Barents, in 1594-6, to the Arctic Regions...for the Hakluyt Society. He also went as second in command in the first Dutch voyage of the Willem Barents to the Polar Sea...but could not join the second expedition last year, having received his commission to go to India, where his life has been cut short by an accident'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.