Duyfken

Feb. 13th, 2007 08:37 pm
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I'll start with the most complicated ship.

Duyfken


Duyfken is a replica of a small ship sent by the Dutch East India Company to explore beyond the known. In 1606 they charted the Cape York Peninsula (the big, pointy bit in the top, right corner) on the first recorded voyage by Europeans to the Great South Land. So she's a bit different to the usual 19th and 20th century ships, replica & original.

Bow


We'll start at the bow.

Figurehead


This is the figurehead. (See the heads on either side?)

Bowsprit


Bowsprit.

Foremast


Foremast.

Deck


Now, onto the ship.

Looking foreward


Looking foreward, I guess that is the forecastle. Note the hatch near their feet.

Forecastle


Eye level view.

Under forecastle


Now, this is underneath. Over there on the right

Firebox


is the firebox for cooking.

Port side


Port side. There are a lot of guns on this little ship.

Main mast


Main mast.

Looking aft


Now looking aft, there's the main cabin and going up is a ladder

Poop deck


to the poop deck.

Poop deck, a little closer


A bit closer. The curved skylight is over the main cabin.

Main cabin, from starboard side


This is the main cabin.

From main cabin


Looking back out to the deck.

Main cabin


The roof beams just touch the top of my head. Taller people had to bend over.

Door to captain's cabin


At the rear of the cabin, this door on the port side

Captain's cabin


opens into the captain's cabin.

Ladder down from main cabin


Back in the other main cabin, on the starboard side, there's a ladder that leads down

Stern guns


into this little space. More guns. No head room.

Ladder to hold


From that space, shown at the top now, another ladder comes down

Passageway


into a passageway (facing away from the ladder now), with two doors on either side,

Hold


that leads to the hold.

Hold is dark


The hold is rather dark.

Ladder from hold


This ladder leads up the deck, through the hatch previously noted.

Stern


This is the stern.

Stern, a little closer


There at the bottom is a gun port that opens into the little space between ladders.

Looking alongside

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