[1] The ship sailed for Java in October 1628 as part of a flotilla commanded by commandeur Francisco Pelsaert, and arrived safely in Batavia on 7 July 1629.

[3][4] Governor Jan Pietersz Coen ordered Pelsaert and his navigator to immediately return with the Sardam and 26 of its crew to the Australian coast to rescue survivors and salvage cargo.

[5] Sailing off on 15 July, the Sardam only arrived there on 17 September, due to weather, currents and a misestimate of the wreckage site.

[8] Sardam sailed back on 15 November and arrived in Batavia on 5 December 1629 with most of the treasure, but with only 68 men, 7 women and 2 children of the original 250 people that had survived the shipwreck, as the rest had died or been murdered.

[1][9] On one of her later trips, the Sardam sailed back and forth between Batavia and Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan) on Formosa between August 1631 and January 1632.