BAT6071AB - Ship's timber
Batavia
Two fragments of inner layer of hull planking. The timber raised as BAT 6071 comprises a scarf tip scarfing onto BAT 6030 P1A and a fragment of hull planking that would have belonged to P0A. The first is now labeled BAT 6071A, whereas the later BAT 6071B.
Site Area Code Mid-West
Number of Items 2
Material Ship's timber
Museum Reference
Registration Number 6071
ID 3536
Status Commonwealth
Under commandeur Francisco Pelsaert, and Ariaen Jacobsz skipper, newly built Batavia sailed from Texel 27 October 1628 for the Dutch East Indies with bullion, goods and silver. On 4 June 1629 the ship struck a reef near Beacon Island in the Houtman Abrolhos. Of the 322 aboard 40 drowned and the rest got ashore. In search of water and food Jacobsz, Pelsaert and others left site in a 30-foot (9....
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