Uncover The Untold Story Of Batavia: You'll Be Amazed!
One of australias most gruesome maritime mass murders, the mutiny took place on , when the dutch east india vessel batavia, became shipwrecked at the. Batavia was a dutch east indiaman on her maiden voyage to the spice city for which she was named. A huge ship for her time (almost 60 metres in length and displacing around 1200. Shipwreck psycho explores the bloody truth behind one of australias worst mass murders, investigating horrifying tale of one of the worlds most terrifying and gruesome. But after sailing for thousands of kilometers, she smashed into a reef near beacon island in june 1629.
In 1629, the dutch ship batavia wrecked off western australia's coast. Mutineers massacred 125 passengers, but a rescue vessel arrived just in time to save the remaining survivors. One of australias most gruesome maritime mass murders took place on , when the dutch east india vessel batavia, became shipwrecked at the abrolhos islands. On friday 9 september, the western australian museum will launch an innovative and interactive digital experience, which brings together almost 400 years of one of australias most notorious. The batavia tragedy was an horrific incident in the history of dutch travel and trade along the western australian coast and is a story that has been kept alive for nearly four. Read about batavias journey from the netherlands, how it wrecked on morning reef, the disastrous events that followed, and the eventual discovery of the wreck site in 1963. The story of the batavia shipwreck is one of the most haunting tales of survival against a group of mutineers committing horrendous acts and atrocities. The batavia was the.
