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BATAVIA model ship
Batavia
was the flagship of a fleet of seven vessels of the
Dutch East India Company. She was built very large
in order to transport a great quantity of
cargo of goods and passengers between the Netherlands
and Asia. With a length of 160 feet,
the ship Batavia was enormous. She
was also sturdy enough to be able to make long voyages
of over a year. Batavia's carvings were mostly on the
transom. The carving theme was about the Batavia's myth
that was about the revolt of the Batavians against the
Romans in the year 69 and the revolt of the Dutch
against the Spanish during the Eighty year War. In
front, a Dutch lion looked
out towards the horizon.
Ship Batavia
was able to protect her cargos with her heavy guns which
could be found only in ships of the line. A
large crew of 300 was required to man the ship and to
fight.
Completed in 1628 in Amsterdam, Batavia led six other ships on her maiden
voyage to Java. Their
cargo consisted mainly of silver coins and two
antiquities belonging to the artist Rubens for sale to
an Indian Mogul ruler. They also carried sandstone
blocks to be erected as gatehouse in the city of
Batavia--the new headquarters of the VOC in the East
Indies situated in the north-western tip of Java. The ships
reached the Cape of Good Hope a month ahead of schedule.
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Shortly after leaving Cape Town, the ships lost
sight of one another and the ship Batavia was alone. On the morning of the fourth of June 1629, Batavia
was wrecked on Morning Reef, on the Houtman Abrolhos,
off the coast of Western Australia.
Of the 341
persons on board forty were drowned immediately. The others were able to get to the nearby islands.
Commander Pelsaert, all the senior officers (except
Jeronimus Cornelisz, who was still on the wreck), some
crew and passengers, went in search of water. After
a brief search of the island and several nearby islands,
the commander realized that the islands held no natural
water source, and eventually decided to head for Batavia
to get help. He left with the ship's longboat and a
party of 48 officers and passengers, including one baby
in arms. All survived the voyage. It took them 33 days to get there.
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Learn more about the
Batavia ship here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(ship)
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