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The Wreck of the Batavia


The Shipwreck That Became a Living Nightmare - The Batavia

The incredible true story of the Dutch East India company ship, the Batavia, and the shipwreck and mutiny which followed.

The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story by Simon Leys | Goodreads

Read 71 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked on the edge o…

Batavia: The Worst Shipwreck in History

On 4 June 1629, the ship was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos, a small chain of islands off the coast of Western Australia.

The Horrifying History Of The Batavia Shipwreck | Horror Hounds

The Batavia murders were such a horrific incident in the history of Dutch travel and trade that the story has been kept alive for nearly four hundred years.

The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper - Simon Leys - Google Books

In 1629, the Batavia was wrecked on a coral archipelago fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board survived, only to become ...

The Wreck of the Batavia - Publishers Weekly

The title piece summons the shipwreck of the Batavia, a vessel of the Dutch East India Company that in 1629 smashed up on a coral archipelago.

The Wreck of the Batavia (1973) - ASO mobile

The Wreck of the Batavia (1973) ... An early film by Bruce Beresford traces the story of the Dutch ship Batavia, wrecked on a coral reef off the coast of Western ...

Batavia - the ship - Don's Maps

Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). It was built in Amsterdam in 1628, and armed with 24 cast-iron cannons and a number of bronze guns.

Mutiny and narrative: Francisco Pelsaert's journals and the wreck of ...

The Dutch ship Batavia sank off the western coast of Australia in June 1629. Arguably Australia's most famous shipwreck, the story has inspired scholarly ...

“Changed as to a tiger”: Considering the Wreck of the Batavia - jstor

“Jeronimus Cornelisz of Haarlem, aged about 30 years, apothecary, and late under Merchant of the ship Batavia, has misbehaved himself so gruesomely and has gone ...

The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story: 9781560258216 - BooksRun

In 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked on the edge of a coral archipelago, some fifty miles from the western coast of the ...

The 1629 Batavia Shipwreck Tale - WA Maritime Museum - Facebook

The 1629 Batavia shipwreck. It has inspired over half a century of research by experts from all over the world, and the WA Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle was ...

The Wreck of the Batavia (1973)Share

This clip shows the final journey of the Batavia, from its last port of call in Cape Town, in what is now South Africa, to its shipwreck on the Abrolhos ...

Batavia (Ship) - Scholarly Community Encyclopedia

2016 - Batavia, created by Shabbir Khanbhai and Paul Dickson, is a four-part radio drama adaptation of the story of the Batavia Shipwreck. The production was ...

The Wreck of the "Batavia": A True Story : Leys, Simon

In this deeply personal piece, Leys recalls a summer when he joined the crew of a tuna-fishing boat from Brittany, one of the last boats still working under ...

SYMHC Classics: The Wreck of the Batavia - Stuff You Missed in ...

SYMHC Classics: The Wreck of the Batavia ... This 2014 episode - originally a two-parter - covers a perfect storm of nautical carnage: There's a ...

Wreck of the Batavia - Wikiquote

The wreck of the Batavia was a 1629 shipwreck that occurred in the Houtman Abrolhos islands off the coast of Western Australia.

The Batavia: Episode 1 - Storms and Mutiny - YouTube

The story of the shipwreck of the VOC returnship "The Batavia" in Australia. In 1628, the largest Dutch United East India Company's ...

Batavia - the journey, the shipwreck and the massacre - Don's Maps

8 ships of the VOC sailed from Texel bound for the East Indies on the 28th of October 1628 - the Batavia, under the command of François Pelsaert, of Antwerp.

Batavia Wreck Site - (Archaeology of the Age of Exploration) - Fiveable

The Batavia wreck site refers to the submerged remains of the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia, which sank off the coast of Australia in 1629.