In the 1970s, distinctive silverware was retrieved from the Batavia shipwreck. Australian historians studying the silverware believe the items were luxurious goods intended for the Mughal Empire ...

Jasper Hoogendoorn, who oversaw the programme’s development, explained at the Edinburgh TV festival that the show was originally inspired by The Voyage of the Batavia, a Dutch ship which was ...

The Dutch East India Company ship, the Zuytdorp, likely crashed into the shore of Western Australia in 1712 due to a storm and not bad navigation, new research has found. In an article published ...

There are conflicting reports on the fate of the 'Lady Elliot' and the date it was wrecked. According to Loney (1993:31) the 'Lady Elliot' left Sydney for Batavia (Jakarta) in late September 1816 but ...

This shipwreck was discovered 12 kilometers from Hon Bay Chan ... The cargo indicates that the vessel was destined for Batavia (Jakarta). High quality Chinese products, such as the blue and white ...

The Tek Sing wreck could have given testimony to one of the biggest catastrophes in the history of seafaring: the sinking of this large junk, that occurred on February 1822 on a journey between the ...

The ship named Batavia, with over 340 passengers aboard, met its demise in the Houtman Abrolhos islands off the coast of Western Australia in 1629. In the 1970s, a team of maritime archaeologists ...