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Projects
Page | Updated 31 Oct 2014
This section of the website contains links to current research projects that are conducted across numerous insititutions. Roaring 40s . ...
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Batavia
Page | Updated 9 Sep 2015
A brief history of the loss and discovery of the VOC ship Batavia On the morning of the fourth of June 1629, the VOC retourschip Batavia was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos, off the coast of Western Australia. The shipwreck was a prelude to an extraordina ...
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Vergulde Draeck
Page | Updated 9 Sep 2015
Vergulde Draeck (1656) Background to the loss On 4 October 1655 the Vergulde Draeck of the Amsterdam Chamber of the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) set sail from Texel, on what was to be her second and final voyage to Batavia (modern Jakarta) in ...
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Zeewijk
Page | Updated 9 Sep 2015
Zeewijk (1727) On 7 November 1726, the VOC Zeeland ship Zeewijk left the Netherlands on her maiden voyage bound for Batavia with a complement of 208 seamen and soldiers. The ship, which was 133 feet (41 metres) long with a draught of 18 feet (c. 5.5 m) in ...
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Rapid
Page | Updated 9 Sep 2015
Rapid (1811) Rapid was an early 19th-century American China trader wrecked on the north-west coast of Western Australia in 1811. The three-masted, 367 ton, two-decked, 32 metre long vessel was built in 1807. As the pride of the American fleet, China trad ...
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Beacon Island Archaeology
Page | Updated 11 Oct 2016
Beacon Island A brief background Image: Beacon Island in 1990 ...
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Beacon Island Visualisation
Page | Updated 8 Jun 2017
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/shipwrecksoftheR40s/ Acknowledgements This project was supported ...
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Zuytdorp
Page | Updated 18 Feb 2022
Zuytdorp (1712) On 1 August 1711, Zuytdorp (also Zuiddorp , meaning ‘South village’) departed from the Netherlands to the trading port of Batavia. It never arrived. No search was undertaken as there was no clue to where the ship was lost and the crew was ...
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