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  • Fortuyn

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1724/01 Protected Federal N N N 800.00 Netherlands Amsterdam 1722 44.20 225 225 Missing Unknown Texel Batavia General Pieter Westrik VOC VOC Possibly wrecked near Cocos Island Halls, 'The Loss of the Dutch East Indiaman Aagtekerke', p. 5 NO Unknown 268 fortuyn ...

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  • Ridderschap van Holland

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1694/01 Protected Federal N N Between Cape Colony and Batavia (Jacarta) N 520.00 Netherlands Amsterdam 1682 Vlissingen 50.00 302 300 Missing Unknown Wielingen Batavia General Dirk de Lange VOC VOC Willem de Vlamingh went looking for the ship in 1696/97. T ...

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  • Trial

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    renamed. In 1969 the wreck was located after researchers John MacPherson and Eric Christiansen of the ...

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  • Vergulde Draeck (Gilt Dragon)

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    lost. The wreck, the first of the Dutch and English East India ships found on the Western Australian ...

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  • Zeewijk

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    wreck and local mangrove timber the crew constructed this boat, some sort of a sloop about 16.5 m long, ...

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  • Zeewijk’s Longboat

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    report Zeewijk Wrecked in 1727: A Report on the 1978 required. Expedition to the site. Report - Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum, No.10. Hugh Edwards, The Wreck on the ...

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  • Batavia

    Wreck | Updated 2 Oct 2020

    V.O.C. ship Batavia wrecked in 1629 on the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia', I.J.N.A. 4: 1(1975) ...

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  • Aagtekerke

    Wreck | Updated 29 Jan 2018

    1726/01 Protected Federal N N Between Cape Good Hope and Jacarta N 850.00 Netherlands Vlissingen 1724 47.50 212 212 Unknown Vlissingen/Rammekens Batavia Coin Jan Witboom VOC VOC 386/71 32°04 - 115°22 B/L Museum Files Countryman, 1969/05/02 Halls, 'Th ...

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  • Zuytdorp

    Wreck | Updated 18 Feb 2022

    a farmer from near Perth about a wreck some distance to the north. With references to a wreck and coins on ...

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