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Last night, a replica of the VOC ship 'Prins Willem', which was originally built in 1984 for the Holland village in Nagasaki, Japan and was back in the Netherlands since 2003, got destroyed by fire. Not our time period, but a big loss for our naval history.
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That was such a sad situation infact looking at the way those masts came down it could have been even a dangerous thing for fire crews that is a tremendous loss indeed.
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I was wondering what that was. I saw a clip on the news , just the tail end as I walked into the rec room. Nobody was watching of course!
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That is a shame! But the photos of her burning (and chance to examine the newly burned wreckage) should be useful for something. And as fates for a replica ship go, burning at least has some character.
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'Luckily' as replica ships go, she wasn't the best in its class, with a steel hull and plenty of adaptations on the inside to accommodate guests. It looked good from the outside, like the Amsterdam, but certainly not as 'hard-core' as the Batavia.
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Out here in Oz, we too have a replica VOC ship, to remind us that the Dutch got here long before Captain Cook ! She is called 'Duyfken' ( little Dove), and when I see her, I am always amazed at just how small she is......about the size of a large yacht !
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Quote:And as fates for a replica ship go, burning at least has some character.
You know how to express it; I wanted to post something along similar lines, that this fire had some kind of awe-inspiring beauty, but decided to leave it because it did not really express what I was thinking.
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A VOC Merchantman is quite a bit bigger, some 50 meters from aft to prow, but if you think about the size of the Ocean, that's not comfortably large!
And btw, did you notice that when it had burnt, you could clearly see the steel innards of the ship. That's not what it's supposed to look like.
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Quote:'Luckily' as replica ships go, she wasn't the best in its class, with a steel hull and plenty of adaptations on the inside to accommodate guests.
Which sealed her fate - the cause of the fire was electrical and probably started inside the bar.
IF she would have been adapted just a bit more, she would have had fire alarms or maybe even a sprinkler system. 
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I always wondered how would those ships burn (well, actually I´m thinking in the "napoleonic" ones). We can imagine a ship dismasted in battle, a ship exploding, a ship sinking slowly, but this was new for me  hock: . That was the fate of so many of those giants (well, for the age and being hand made...) of the seas.
I can only add that it was not a more accurate replica with some gunpowder "or the fun" :roll:
PS: see it up to the end hock:
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