The replica AMSTERDAM seen on this stamp is moored alongside the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. She is a replica from the VOC ship AMSTERDAM which was lost during her first voyage from the Seven Provinces to Dutch India in 1749 on the English coast near Hastings. Till today parts of the wreck are still visible during very low water. (she is on a stamp of the Netherlands 65 c issued in 1990, sg1579.) http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =2&t=10142
The replica was built by around 400 volunteers in the Zouthaven (Salt Harbour) in Amsterdam between 1985 and 1990.
She was made mostly with tools used at that time by the shipbuilders of the VOC.
The hull is made of Iroko wood.
27 October 1989 launched as the AMSTERDAM
Displacement around 1,200 ton, dim. length bpp. 42.45m, beam 11.82m, depth 7.55, depth in hold 5.30m, draught 4.50m.
Three masts, square rigged, sail area 1,940 square meters.
Armed with four original canons and 16 replicas.
After completing moored near the Maritime Museum where she is used as showpiece by the museum, and a crew of volunteer actors demonstrate what life was like at that time on the VOC ships.
2013 Underwent some repair at the Rijkswerf in Den Helder, and will be back in Amsterdam in May 2013.
Netherlands 2012 sg?, scott?
Source: Wikipedia. Great Sailing Ships of the World by Otmar Schäuffelen. Trouw a Dutch newspaper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBDz9h2WTWk