Jeronimus wrote:
Pictures taken on the Batavia Shipyard in Lelystad. It shows the Batavia
(completed) and the Zeven Provinciën (under construction) and the workshops
used for the construction. For the curious among you, I'm behind the wheel
in pic number 13. The wheel is only there because the Batavia starred in
the movie "Scheepsjongerns van Bontekoe" a famous (in the Netherlands)
story about 3 boys who get onboard a Dutch East India ship (Starring the
Batavia) and get shipwrecked in Indonesia.

For the general public the ship needed a Wheel....

I don't quite follow why it is "only there"?

But thanks for posting these interesting pictures.

Regards, Bob Taylor