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Model Description
- 790mm" long x 280mm" Wide x 680mm" High
- Requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans.
- Plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added one at a time).
- Built with rare, high quality copper.
- The model rests perfectly on a large, polished redwood base between four arched metal fishes
- Masterfully stitched canvas sails
- No plastic fittings (metal anchors and machine turned brass cannons).
- Significant deck detail.
- To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual ship.
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Historical Significance
The Batavia was originally built in 1628 as the flagship of the Dutch East India Company the V O C. The ship stranded on her maiden voyage on a small island reef near the West Coast of Australia. Off the 341 crew and passengers about 60 drowned and later over 125 were killed in a mutiny. The remainder of them was rescued after a heroic journey.
Between 1985 and 1995 the Dutch shipwright Willem Vos reconstructed the Batavia according to the most faithful rules set to build a ship as if it was 'an other one'. That's why we say ' the Last East Indiaman'. The new Batavia has NO engine, is built from timbers identical to the original and sailed better as many newer tall ships.
The reconstructed section of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) ship Batavia is on display in the Batavia Gallery of the Western Australian Maritime Museum.
On 5 December 1999 Sydney turned out to watch Batavia parade under tow on Sydney Harbour surrounded by a flotilla of spectator craft, before proceeding to her berth at the Australian National Maritime Museum |
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