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The second method includes the research model and full-scale recon- structions to investigate the methods and techniques of ship construction. In reality these two fields often overlap; for example, the Kyrenia ship II was built according to plans made from the original construction (Figure 13.2). Likewise, the “new” Batavia (Figure 13.3) was constructed in The Netherlands according to historical information. This replica can be com- pared with the reconstruction of part of the original Batavia in the Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle (Figure 13.4). Other replicas or projects involved in preserving and reconstructing hulls of ships that have been excavated from underwater sites include the Bremen cog in West Germany (Ellmers, 1979) (Figure 13.5), the Kedelhaven ship in The
Figure 13.3 The modern Batavia replica almost completed at Lelystad, The Netherlands. This project involved building a modern replica of the VOC ship Batavia. The work, supervised by Willem Vos of the Stichting Nederland bouwt VOC-Retourschip, was based on historical information. (Courtesy of Patrick Baker, Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum.)