Blog post | 20-12-2021 |
Loaded with goods and isolated for miles on the open waves a VOC vessel was a vulnerable target. To counteract the inherent risks ...
Blog post | 05-10-2021 | RCE employee
Rudi van Straten started working at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) in 1993. During his 28 years working ...
Blog post | 15-02-2021 | RCE employee
Around five million Americans count themselves as having Dutch ancestry. Yet most of them know very little about the long history ...
Blog post | 11-01-2021 |
In this blog the pottery found on the VOC-ship Rooswijk is discussed, being analyzed by specialists Jan van Doesburg from the ...
Blog post | 17-11-2020 |
In this blog Alex Bliss discusses the glass artefacts found on the VOC-ship Rooswijk which sank near the Goodwin Sands in 1740. ...
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 ...