Batavia

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20 7 March 2015, 17:36

Torsten
Nice 👍😎

7 March 2015, 18:02

Choppa Nutta
Nice 👍

7 March 2015, 18:20

Mike Kryza
Respect! - (Not my world - too much work😉😢 - but for me really a gem!

7 March 2015, 19:58

Es-haq Khosravi
Awesome!

7 March 2015, 20:16

Alan Rush
Great job! 👍 I really admire model ship builders. 🙂

7 March 2015, 23:11

Martien Lourens
Amazingly beautiful. Have you seen the replica in Lelystad? 👍👍👍

8 March 2015, 10:24

Christian Bruer
Very nice and inspiring East Indiaman! I most like the rigging, very nice and clean.
@Martien, I have been there twice. Still I have been aboard I could not imagine what the sailors feel and how they lived on this small and cramped ship on their route to India!
Sadly they make no progress with De Zeven Provincien.

8 March 2015, 17:22

Kees Kleijwegt
Thanks for the kind words mates!
@Martien, yes I've been to Lelystad. I was a sponsor of the project, so I visited the real Batavia a lot (for free 🙂)
@Christian, sadly there are no funds for the build of the 7 provinciën available anymore 🙁
And actually the Batavia never reached Indonesia, she ran at a reef at her maiden voyage. What happened on that ship and after she run on the reef is proper "hollywood material"

8 March 2015, 19:04

Kees Kleijwegt
This is the history from Wikipedia...en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(ship)

8 March 2015, 19:12

Kees Kleijwegt
And Christian, this book will give you an idea of life on an East India "retourschip". The novel is based on the original account of the VOC "officer" on board of the Batavia.
amazon.com/Batavia-P../ref=tmm_pap_title_0

8 March 2015, 19:14

Ben STONE
Yep harrowing part of history. Great work.

8 March 2015, 22:07

Jay Dubya
You can still get to see the real one at museum.wa.gov.au/museums/shipwrecks ... and read about it's history & discovery in harpercollins.com.au..ias-bloodiest-mutiny
Can anybody tell Fremantle is my 'home' town ?!!?

BTW Kees your work is simply exquisite. Cheers

9 March 2015, 04:07