BAT6375 - Ship's timber
Batavia
Old description: Timber, plank, long- unknown.
WvD, August 7, 2006: Fragment of inner layer of hull planking w. two treenails (dia. 0.034). Each treenail has spike hole situated next to them, square in section 0.0094 and 0.0087).
(Big sample in MAC-069, T. 18).
Site Area Code Mid-West
Number of Items 1
Material Ship's timber
Museum Reference
Registration Number 6375
ID 8948
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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