Prins Willem
| The stern of replica Prins Willem in 2005
The 1985 replica of the Prins Willem in 2005
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 Dutch Republic |
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| Name: | Prins Willem |
| Owner: | Dutch East India Company |
| Launched: | 1649 |
| Fate: | Sank, 1662 |
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| Tons burthen: | 700 tons |
| Length: | 42 m (137 ft 10 in) |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Armament: | 32 guns |
The Prins Willem (Dutch pronunciation: [prɪns ˈʋɪləm]), also spelled Prins Willim, was a 17th-century East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company. It was their largest ship at the time. The ship made its first voyage to the Dutch East Indies in 1651. After several voyages, it sank near Madagascar in 1662. A replica of the Prins Willem was built in 1985, but it was destroyed by fire in 2009.[1]
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History
The ship Prins Willim was built in 1650 in Middelburg in the Dutch Republic.[1] Curiously, the name on the ship was Prins Willim. Two possible reasons have been advanced: the ship's name is Middle Dutch or the lack of space for the name caused the "e" to be changed to a shorter "i".[citation needed]
The ship was the flagship of Witte de With in the Battle of the Kentish Knock during the First Anglo-Dutch War.[citation needed]
The ship sank near Madagaskar in 1662.[1]
Replica
A replica with the same name was built in 1984-85 at the Dutch shipyard Amels in Makkum for the Nagasaki Holland Village (長崎オランダ村 Nagasaki Oranda Mura?) theme park in Seihi, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The building cost was 1.4 billion yen.[2]
In 2003, Huis Ten Bosch K. K., the operating company of Nagasaki Holland Village declared bankruptcy and the replica was sold to a Dutch company for 130 million yen.[3][4]
In 2004, the replica became part of the theme park Cape Holland in Den Helder, the Netherlands.[citation needed]
In 2009, the bowsprit of the Prins Willim replica was being restored.
On the morning of 30 July 2009, the replica was lost to fire, probably due to an electric malfunction. The owner of the ship, the Libéma company, decided on a restoration.[5] In 2014 the ship was dismantled, as the restoration turned out to be too expensive.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (Dutch) Prins Willem, 1650, De VOCsite. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
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External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
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