Descendants of the crew
Archives indicate that 34 children were born in the Faroe Islands in 1742 and 51 in 1743. There is therefore a significant difference between the number of births in 1743 and 1742. It is plausible that several children were born in 1743 to foreign men as fathers. Official registers describe three examples, one of which includes generations of descendants. I have visited the Faroe Islands many times and have photographed the fascinating and beautiful landscape, but the story of the Westerbeek and the idea that Dutch blood flows through the veins of the people of the Faroes is what fascinates me. After contacting Martha Reijmers and receiving her book, she put us on the trail of two descendants of the shipwright of the Westerbeek. With these two descendants, I have been back to the site where the Westerbeek sank.