In the 1970s, distinctive silverware was retrieved from the Batavia shipwreck. Australian historians studying the silverware believe the items were luxurious goods intended for the Mughal Empire ...

Jasper Hoogendoorn, who oversaw the programme’s development, explained at the Edinburgh TV festival that the show was originally inspired by The Voyage of the Batavia, a Dutch ship which was ...

The Dutch East India Company ship, the Zuytdorp, likely crashed into the shore of Western Australia in 1712 due to a storm and not bad navigation, new research has found. In an article published ...

Australian forensic anthropologist Daniel Franklin is uncovering the story of a 1629 shipwreck which lead to a three-month mutiny. Over a hundred survivors were murdered by other crew members.