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....

More info (English, Dutch and german) http://www.bataviawerf.nl/

Regards,

Jeroen

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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....

Thanks Jeroen, I visited that shipyard when they were building the Batavia.
--
Greetings
Bouler (The Netherlands)

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

On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:28:37 -0500, Bob Taylor
wrote:

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
Gotta put it somewhere till it gets installed.

Bob Taylor wrote in
:

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


Hello Bob,

it isn't supposed to be there. The ships of that day weren't steered by a
wheel, but by a 'Coppelstock' a vertical tiller. On the Batavia this tiller
is also installed, but no near where the wheel is situated. The wheel was
installed temporarily for the generl public, who believes all ships are
steered by a wheel. It also makes for some interesting shots of a captain
tied to the wheel in a storm..

Anything to please the audience of the movie...

regards,

Jeroen

joevan wrote in
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Gotta put it somewhere till it gets installed.


I think it has been removed by now. I might be wrong though. These pictures
were shot in 2008, so quite a while ago...

On 09 Nov 2009 17:33:06 GMT, Jeronimus wrote:

Bob Taylor wrote in
:

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


Hello Bob,

it isn't supposed to be there. The ships of that day weren't steered by a
wheel, but by a 'Coppelstock' a vertical tiller. On the Batavia this tiller
is also installed, but no near where the wheel is situated. The wheel was
installed temporarily for the generl public, who believes all ships are
steered by a wheel. It also makes for some interesting shots of a captain
tied to the wheel in a storm..

Anything to please the audience of the movie...

regards,

Jeroen
Our Heron had a tiller. I used to love to feel the tremble when she
was in perfect trim. Some other ships of similar size had wheels. I
guess today it is just preference?