The people
Who was on board.
On board was Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife Sarah and their two-year-old daughter Sophia.1 Briggs’s crew numbered seven: first mate Albert Richardson, second mate Andrew Gilling, steward William Head, and seamen Gottleib Gouldschaal, Arian Martens, and brothers Boz and Volkert Lorenzen.1
Sources differ. Royal Museums Greenwich names the steward William Head and the seamen Gottleib Gouldschaal, Boz and Volkert Lorenzen. The crew list printed from the court papers in Fay, 1942, has Edward Wm. Head, Gotlieb Gondeschall, and Boy and Volkert Lorenson. This site reports both lists and does not pick a single “correct” spelling from a later webpage.
The crew list printed from the court papers in Fay names the steward and cook as Edward Wm. Head, aged 23, American.2 The same Fay crew list spells the seamen as Volkert Lorenson, Arian Martens, Boy Lorenson and Gotlieb Gondeschall — spellings that differ from the Royal Museums Greenwich list.2
This site does not pick a single “correct” spelling from a later webpage. It reports the museum’s list and the Fay crew table side by side.
Nobody on board was ever seen again.1
