Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash is a book I'd highly recommend to anyone wanting to do a deep dive into this truly bizarre story.

I bought this book based on your comment and I can't put it down!

I just finished it in two sittings. Fantastic read.

Bought it and enjoying the read so far :)

Yeah the story of the Batavia makes the Star Trek mirror universe empire seem like a bunch of boy scouts compared how the VOC ran things.

> Cornelisz and several of the major mutineers had both hands chopped off before being hanged.

> The remaining mutineers were taken to Batavia for trial. Five were hanged, while several others were flogged, keelhauled or dropped from the yardarm on the later voyage back home. Cornelisz' second in command, Jacop Pietersz, was broken on the wheel, the most severe punishment available at the time.

Though luck for Pelsaert because the VOC still thought that was too little too late:

> A board of inquiry decided that Pelsaert had exercised a lack of authority and was therefore partly responsible for what had happened.

Two of the mutineers were also left (to die) on the Australian mainland in 1628 -- 140 years before Australia was "Discovered" by James Cook.

None of that seems particularly bad compared to the orgy of rape and murder orchestrated by Cornelisz and co, who are estimated to have killed 125 of the passangers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(1628_ship)

The Casefile podcast has a really good episode on the shipwreck.