The Dutch ship, the Amicilia could see a flag flying from the top of a tall tree on a high point of land fluttering over Christmas Island. This certainly bore investigation since it was well known that there was no one living on Christmas Island. The Amicilia launched a boat and some men rowed towards Christma Island.

Ship Name: Vice Admiraal Rijk

Year Built: 1846

Tonnage: 469

Ship Type: Wooden Sailing Bark

Nationality: Dutch

Location Wrecked: Christmas Island

Year Wrecked: 1852

. Reason For Wreck: Struck Rock in a Storm

Lives Lost: 17

Sources:

https://www.marhisdata.nl/gezagvoerder&id=442

https://www.marhisdata.nl/schip?id=13822

https://english.cultureelerfgoed.nl/latest/weblog/2019/more-insight-in-the-thirty-shipwrecks-around-christmas-island

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c008845668&view=1up&seq=347

https://christmasislandarchives.com/shipwreck-account/

https://www.academia.edu/27051924/Closing_in_on_the_Fortuyn_Report_on_fieldwork_conducted_in_2016_at_Christmas_and_the_Cocos_Keeling_Islands

https://www.academia.edu/44013455/Wreck_Check_s_Closing_in_on_the_Fortuyn_Project

Misadventures in Nature’s Paradise by Graeme Henderson, Andrew Viduka, and Robert de Hoop

https://rsr.akvo.org/dir/project/3343/update?id=14389