Wendy Van Duivenvoorde: 1 book
Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding
The Archaeological Study of Batavia and Other Seventeenth-Century VOC Ships
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Eight months into its maiden voyage to the Indies, the Dutch East India Company’s Batavia sank on June 4, 1629 on Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Australia.
Wendy van Duivenvoorde’s five-year study was aimed at reconstructing the hull of Batavia, the only excavated...
