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The Batavia shipwreck disaster | Australian National Maritime Museum

The Batavia smashes into a reef. On a stormy night in June 1629, about 8 months after the voyage started, the Batavia ran aground on a coral ...

Wreck of the Batavia | National Museum of Australia

Aerial shot of five islets surrounded by reefs and deeper sea. ... Wreck of the Batavia. In the small hours of 4 June 1629 the Batavia smashed ...

Batavia (1628 ship) - Wikipedia

On 4 June 1629, Batavia was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos, a chain of small islands off Western Australia. Batavia. View of starboard side of three-masted ...

New horrors unravelled in the story of the Batavia shipwreck

On the 4th of June, 1629, the ship foundered upon the reefs of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands off the western coast of Australia. Of the 322 ...

Batavia Shipwreck Site and Survivor Camps Area 1629 - Houtman ...

Human skeletal remains of passengers and crew murdered by the mutineers were recovered from Beacon Island in the 1960s. As the date and ...

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 - OAKTrust

Batavia, a Dutch East Indiaman, sank in 1629 on its maiden voyage to the Indies in the Houtman Abrolhos Archipelago off the coast of Western Australia.

Batavia Shipwreck - Eco Abrolhos

The Wreck: On June 4, 1629, the Batavia struck an uncharted reef at the Abrolhos Islands, causing irreparable damage. Chaos ensued as crew members and ...

Batavia | Maritime Archaeology Databases

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.

Mutiny And Murder: Plumbing The Murky Depths Of The Batavia ...

The Batavia was a Dutch vessel that was wrecked off the shores of Western Australia back in 1629. Image credit: State Library of New South Wales ...

Murder, mutiny, slavery: 'World's worst shipwreck' was bloodier than ...

The Batavia wreck was discovered in 1963 and underwater excavations carried out in the 1970s; eventually part of the hull was raised and put on ...

Wreck of the Batavia - World History Encyclopedia

The ordeal that followed the Batavia's wreck is a dark tale in maritime history. A group of mutineers massacred an estimated 125 people during a reign of ...

We studied the tree rings of the Batavia shipwreck timbers

The wrecking of the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia in 1629 is perhaps the best-known maritime disaster in Australian history.

Silent witnesses: Further dark secrets of Batavia shipwreck laid bare

... helped to unravel the haunting tale of the Batavia maritime disaster ...

The Batavia Tragedy – 1629 - Tales from the Quarterdeck

On 4 June 1629, the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) ship Batavia slammed into a reef off the Western Australian coast stranding some 340 ...

Batavia Shipwreck Ruins - National Film and Sound Archive

Built as a fort in 1629 by survivors of the shipwrecked Dutch merchant ship Batavia, the National Heritage-listed shipwreck site provides a lasting memorial to ...

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.

Batavia (Ship) - Scholarly Community Encyclopedia

Batavia was shipwrecked on her maiden voyage, and was made famous by the subsequent mutiny and massacre that took place among the survivors. A twentieth-century ...

Hell on Earth - The Batavia Shipwreck - YouTube

This is the dark story of the Batavia, a ship from the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, sets sail laden with treasures, destined for ...

A Virtual Reconstruction of the Batavia Shipwreck in Its Landscape

Batavia wrecked in 1629 in the Houtman Abrolhos, a chain of reef islands 80 km off northwestern Australia, while en route from the Netherlands ...