Royal Netherlands Navy – Historic Ships

Historic Ships

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VOC Batavia (1995 replica of a 1628 ship, which had been shipwrecked off Western Australia) LOA 186′ / 56.7 m TDISP 1,200 tons at Lelystad. Although the original vessel did not belong to the Dutch Navy, the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) was, in its own right, a powerful navy operating in the Far East in the 17th and 18th Centuries. This ship is pierced for 24 guns.

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The replica Batavia during filming, dressed as the Nieuw Hoorn during a 2007 filming. Credit: ADZee / Public domain

VOC Batavia 2019 LelystadVOC Batavia 2018 Lelystad

VOC Amsterdam (1748 ship) LOA 158′ / 48.2 m TDISP 1,100 tons. The ship was wrecked in 1749 on Bulverhythe Beach, England. The shipwreck exists today, and the lower portions of the hull are well-preserved, due to being encased in mud. A replica was constructed for display and completed in 1990. It is at the Netherlands Maritime Museum, Amsterdam. This heavily-armed ship had ports for 42 cannon.

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VOC Amsterdam wreck at low tide, Bulverhythe Beach, ca 2017 Credit: Dr-Mx / CC0
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Replica VOC ship Amsterdam, built in 1990 on the lines of a 1748 ship which foundered in the English Channel the next year. Credit: Ashu Mathura from Amsterdam, The Netherlands / CC BY-SA 

VOC Amsterdam 2018 wreck Bulverhythe Beach

VOC Amsterdam 2018 wreck Bulverhythe Beachdistance
Composite view with 2017/05 Amsterdam view of Netherlands Maritime Museum replica overlaid onto 2018/05 Bulverhythe Beach, UK, capture, with the approximate length of the keel marked in yellow. The beginnings of the stem-post (bows) are inshore (to the North). The darker rectangular lines to the stern of the wreck are actually a dam structure that was erected to protect the slightly lower remains.

VOC Amsterdam 2017 replicaVOC Amsterdam 2019 replica

HNLMS Schorpioen monitor (1868-1909) LOA 214′ / 65.2 m TDISP 2,200 tons. Built in France, used as an accommodation ship after 1909, and briefly acquired and used as such by Germany during the Second World War. Preserved as a museum ship since 1982 at the Dutch Naval Museum, Den Helder.

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HNLMS Schorpioen at the Dutch Naval Museum, Den Helder, July 2009 [cropped from original] Credit: Txllxt TxllxT / CC BY-SA
HNLMS Schorpioen Den Helder 2015

HNLMS Buffel ironclad ram (1868-1896) LOA 196′ / 59.7 m TDISP 2,400 tons from 1896 until 1973 she was an accomodation ship. Restored and displayed for many years at Rotterdam, she is now on display in Hellevoetsluis.

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HNMLS Buffel ca. 2018 at Hellevoetsluis. Credit: Marion Golsteijn / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

HNLMS Buffel Hellevoetsluis 2018

HNLMS Bonaire screw-steamship, rigged as a barquentine (1877-1995) LOA 174′ / 53 m TDISP: 830 tons deadweight

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Bonaire under continued restoration in a drydock near Dutch Naval Museum at Den Helder, ca. 2018. Credit: Ymnes / CC0

HNLMS Bonaire Den Helder 2018

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