Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vianen, sometimes spelled Vyanen or Viane, was a 17th-century VOC sailing ship, used to transport cargo between Europe and the Indies. It was shipwrecked but refloated on its first voyage, and shipwrecked and sunk on its second. Built at Amsterdam in 1626, it had a gross tonnage of 400. It departed Texel bound for Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia) on 19 March 1627, and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 16 July. Departing the Cape on 7 August, it arrived at Batavia on 8 October. On 6 January it departed Batavia as part of a fleet of seven ships bound for Europe under the command of the outgoing Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies Pieter de Carpentier. Just as the fleet was leaving, however, a valuable cargo arrived at Batavia from China, so Vianen was held back to be loaded. It was then sent to catch up with the main fleet, but it had been loaded too hastily, and had to return to port to have its load balanced by the addition of 5000 ingots of copper.

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