Home page for the Australian National Maritime Museum : a prime resource for historic vessels, migrant ships, family history, genealogy, maritime research, arts and culture, seamanship and much more.

Endeavour is a replica of Captain James Cook's famous ship of discovery. Described by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London as the world's best replica of an 18th century ship, she is currently circumnavigating the globe.

Click on the heading to read the full version Welcome to the Duyfken 1606 Replica Foundation website and home of the 2002 VOC Voyagie. The Duyfken replica is sailing in the wake of her original predecessor on her way to The Netherlands for the 2002 VOC Celebrations. Follow Duyfken's first journey in the 2000 Duyfken Expedition. See the building process of the replica as it took shape in ...

The Story Pictures The Mutineers The Heroes Further Reading The Documentary The Batavia In 1629 the ship Batavia, then on her maiden voyage, sank after running aground on the Houtman Abrolhos Islands some 40 miles off the coast of Western Australia. The events that followed involved the extremes of human behaviour both evil and heroic. The story has recently been brought to life in a TV ...