Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Batavia"

Photos of the sailing ship:

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Batavia, Werner Jurkowski, Lelystad , 05/1993

Source, location, date:
Werner Jurkowski,
Lelystad,
05/1993

Batavia, Werner Jurkowski, Lelystad , 05/1993

Source, location, date:
Werner Jurkowski,
Lelystad,
05/1993

Technical data of the sailing ship:

Name:Batavia
Registered port:Lemmer, Friesland
Nation:NL
Type of rigging:VOLLSCHIFF
Year built:1985-1995
Yard:Batavia-Werft, Lelystad
Overall length:56.60 m
Breadth:10.50 m
Draught:5.10 m
Sail area:1190 m2
Ship's hull:Holz / Wood
Engine:keine/none

Portrait of the sailing ship:

Last update: 10 Nov 2001

  • replica of a ship built in 1628 in Amsterdam and that was wrecked off the Australian coast, the shipwreck was salvaged in the 1970s and can be visited in an exhibition in Fremantle, West-Australia
  • start of reconstruction was in 1985 at a specialized yard, the reconstruction project was a training project for young people
  • use of many historicak sources (archives, museums, building descriptions from the 17th century, prints, paintings), to achieve the most authentic reconstruction of the ship
  • ship is now owned and made public as a museum's ship under sail and ambassador of the seafaring nation holland
  • 1999 transport of the ship to Sydney to the Olympic Games 2000, she returned to Lelystad in June, 2001

Contact:

Website (nederlands/English, 23 Mar 2021):
http://www.bataviaphotos.com/
Sailing the Last East Indiaman - Batavia: website dedicated to a handmade photobook about the only sailing voyages of the 17th century ship Batavia, as it took place on the Ocean near Sydney, Australia, in the first weeks of October 2000

Website (nederlands/English/deutsch, 23 Mar 2021):
https://www.batavialand.nl/
Batavialand: website of the exhibition area which contains a museum and the Batavia

Literature for further reading:

We recommend the following references for your further research of the ship. The references marked with have been included in the generation of the ship profile on this page.

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 1997 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(9. aktualisierte Auflage)
Page: 220 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 2002 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(10. aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage)
Page: 240 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data