10 Facts About Duyfken

Duyfken's was a fast, lightly armed ship probably intended for shallow water, small valuable cargoes, bringing messages, sending provisions, or privateering.

In 1596, a ship named Duyfken sailed in the first expedition to Bantam, the crew was captured by the islanders on Pulau Enggano.

Duyfken was then sent on a voyage of exploration to the east when the newly formed Dutch East India Company was granted a monopoly on trade to the Spice Islands by the Dutch government.

In 1605, Duyfken was in the fleet that recaptured the fort of Van Verre at Ambon in the Spice Islands, from the Portuguese.

Duyfken's was then sent to Bantam, Java for urgently needed provisions.

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In 1605, the Dutch East India Company sent Duyfken, captained by Willem Janszoon, to search for trade opportunities in the "south and east lands" beyond the furthest reaches of their known world.

Duyfken Replica Project was founded by the Dutch-born Australian historian Michael John Young.

Full size reproduction of Duyfken was built by the "Duyfken 1606 Replica Foundation" jointly with the Maritime Museum of Western Australia and launched on 24 January 1999 in Fremantle.

Duyfken's then undertook goodwill tours to Sydney, Queensland, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, South Africa, and finally Texel in the Netherlands.

Duyfken was berthed at the Queensland Maritime Museum in Southbank, Brisbane, Queensland until early 2011, when she was then placed on display at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney.