Blog post | 03-11-2020 | RCE employee
On 3 November 2020, voters in the US went to the polls to elect a new president, as they do every four years. The United States ...
Blog post | 21-09-2020 |
A blog about lighting on the Dutch VOC-ship the Rooswijk which sank in 1740 near the coast of England. Alex Bliss from MSDS ...
Blog post | 25-06-2020 |
Hollywood and many modern romanticised stories fete the Age of Sail as an exciting time-period populated by dashing pirates, ...
Blog post | 10-06-2020 |
The story of the Rooswijk is a heady mix of different stories from all manner of perspectives, but perhaps one of the most ...
Blog post | 25-05-2020 |
The Rooswijk was an East Indiaman belonging to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) which sank in Goodwin Sands on the 10th of ...
Blog post | 09-09-2018 | Leon Derksen
From 7 to 9 September 2018, the Maritime Programme and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology conducted a dive survey ...
Blog post | 09-08-2018 | Martijn Manders
We have a team that’s fun and running smoothly although circumstances are very difficult. Of course we knew this after our ...
Blog post | 02-03-2018 | Leon Derksen
Looking back, our trip to Hokkaido in November 2017 has been a great way to see how the story of a Dutch-made vessel has become ...
Blog post | 19-02-2018 | Leon Derksen
It was finally time to visit the place where the Kanrin Maru had wrecked some 147 years ago: Saraki Misaki itself. With Mr. ...
Blog post | 12-01-2018 | Leon Derksen
In an introduction, the Society told us they were established 20 years ago to emphasise the historical heritage of the Kanrin ...
