The Batavia and its many stories
The Batavia and its many stories - Dutch Australia Cultural Centre
The Batavia, built in Amsterdam in 1628 was the company's new flagship, she sailed that year on her maiden voyage for Batavia. On 4 June 1629, ...
Batavia's History | Western Australian Museum
She was the first Dutch ship to be lost off the west coast of Australia. Pelsaert recorded the shipwreck in his journal: FOURTH of JUNE, being Monday morning, ...
The Batavia shipwreck disaster | Australian National Maritime Museum
The Batavia story enters the history books, and its wreck is finally found ... most infamous maritime disasters in history. The remains of ...
The Batavia Story - Visit Geraldton
Commander Francisco Pelsaert and select crew set off in the ship's longboat to seek help and those left endured one of the most horrific mutinies in history.
New horrors unravelled in the story of the Batavia shipwreck
The story of the Batavia shipwreck is one of the most haunting tales of survival against a group of mutineers committing horrendous acts and atrocities.
Wreck of the Batavia | National Museum of Australia
Almost 400 years ago the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia wrecked near a small group of islands off Australia's western coast. What followed remains ...
Batavia (1628 ship) - Wikipedia
Associated today with "one of the worst horror stories in maritime history", Batavia has been the subject of numerous published histories. Due to its unique ...
Batavia Shipwreck Site and Survivor Camps Area 1629 - Houtman ...
... history. Gallery Click an image for a larger view. ... its valuable cargo, with a plan to use the ship for piracy. The ...
The Batavia: Episode 4 - Come Hell or High Water - YouTube
The full story of the shipwreck of the VOC Returnship "The Batavia" in Australia In 1628, the largest Dutch United East India Company's ...
The Horrifying History Of The Batavia Shipwreck | Horror Hounds
In the middle of the night, taking the longboat and 40 primarily sailors men, they started their long journey to port Batavia, which was 3000 ...
Mutiny And Murder: Plumbing The Murky Depths Of The Batavia ...
On June 4, 1629, the Dutch East India Company's flagship Batavia was lost off the coast of Western Australia. What unfolded was a tragic ...
Explore almost 400 years of Batavia stories through a rich digital ...
The Batavia 1629 e-book takes readers on Batavia's first and final voyage, its wrecking at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, and the aftermath of mutiny and ...
The Mysteries of the Batavia - YouTube
The Batavia is housed at the Western Australian Museum's Shipwreck Galleries, and can tell us a lot about seafaring and shipbuilding in the ...
Murder, mutiny, slavery: 'World's worst shipwreck' was bloodier than ...
The brutal story of Batavia is now recognized as an important moment in Australia's early colonial history and is even the subject of an opera.
The Wreck of The Batavia | Tales of History and Imagination
Having withstood extremes of heat and cold, rough seas, and most recently terrible storms, the weather was just becoming temperate, the seas ...
Psychopath on the Batavia — the most incredible but true story you ...
Pelsaert's boat follows the current north. And soon, they realize that their only option for finding help is to head toward the Dutch settlement ...
Bring up the bodies: New light on the wreck of the 'Batavia' and its ...
Retellings of the Batavia story rarely avoid the clichés of the Australian Gothic. It contains, after all, every trope of the genre: a small ...
SYMHC Classics: The Wreck of the Batavia - Stuff You Missed in ...
The Batavia and its shipwreck wound up being ... that'll make you not want to get on a boat. It's that the whole story has so many layers of
We studied the tree rings of the Batavia shipwreck timbers
The subject of books, articles, plays, and even an opera, Batavia was wrecked on a chain of small islands off the coast of Western Australia. Of ...
The Batavia Shipwreck is the craziest Australian horror story you've ...
If you were watching a dramatised version of the events surrounding the Batavia, you'd think there were too many story elements. About sixty ...