Batavia — 1628 Dutch East India Ship Model, XXL Painted, Fully Assembled (59.1 in / 150 cm, Red Cedar & Mahogany)

Nearly five feet of Dutch East Indiaman, hand-painted and fully assembled. This is a commission-scale piece — the kind of model a room gets arranged around.

Specification

• 59.1 in / 150 cm
• XXL plank-on-frame hull in red cedar and mahogany, hand-painted
• Deep-carved and gilded stern gallery, quarter galleries and trailboards
• Rows of gun ports with individually fitted cast cannon
• Three masts and bowsprit with full hand-knotted standing and running rigging, ratlines throughout
• Hand-stitched linen sails on every yard
• Ship's boats, capstan, wheel, gratings, ladders and rails
• Metal anchors and wooden rudder
• Heavy solid wood base with engraved brass nameplate
• Fully assembled — arrives crated on a pallet

Before you order

Measure the space first: nearly five feet of hull, plus mast height and bowsprit projection beyond it. This ships by freight.

History

Batavia was the Dutch East India Company's newest flagship when she sailed in 1628, and she was wrecked on her maiden voyage — driven onto Morning Reef off Western Australia in June 1629. The commander took an open boat 2,000 miles to Java for help. In his absence, a mutiny among the survivors stranded on the coral islands became a systematic massacre. Her hull timbers were recovered from 1963 onward and are displayed in the Western Australian Museum; a full-size replica was completed at Lelystad in 1995.