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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Literally hundreds of individuals·have helped with the excavation, conservation, adminislration, research and reconslrUctionoftheBatavia.Theauthorwouldliketoacknowledgethehelpandassisl3nceofallthesepeopleandregrets that space precludes listing every individual. However, I would like to pay tribute to all the members of my staff of the Department of Maritime Archaeology of the Western Australian Maritime Museum who were involved with the excavation of the Batavia and who have helped with the associated work and the production of this book. In particular, I would like to thankPatrick Baker for his tireless help in producing the photographic prints for this publication and Myra Stanbury for her support with aspects of the research and the drawings. I greatly appreciate Rosemary Harper's help with theadministrationofthecollectionandBrianRichards' workonthephotograptuccatalogue.Staffwhoassistedwiththe excavation,inadditiontothosementionedahove,includedGeoffKimpton,GraemeHenderson,WarrenRobinson,Colin Powell, Mike McCarthy, Catarina Ingleman-Sundberg, Lous de Vries-Zuiderbaan, Bob Richards, ScottSledge, Bobby Bevacqua, Guy Wilkinson and Jimmy Stewart. Fairlie Sawday and Paul Hundley have lent invaluable help with the collection and Susan Cox has given generously of her time in many ways, inclUding typing much of the manuscript I am grateful to all staff of the Conservation Laboratory for their work on the Batavia material and their advice and help with the artefacts and I especially want to thank Neil North, lan McLeod, Nancy Mills-Reid, Rinske Car and Eric Car. Ann Ousey and staff of the Museum Publications Department have been most efficient in dealing with the photographic work for this publication. Also, the help and assistance ofother members of the Western Australian Museum, particularly Clem Burns and Kevin Young, is gratefully acknowledged. Various volunteers helped with the excavation and I would like to express my appreciation for the volunteers from the Maritime Archaeological Association of Western Auslraiia w h o a s s i s t e d w i t h t h e w o r k . A d d i t i o n a l l y , I w o u l d l i k e to t h a n k m e m b e r s o f t h e f i s h i n g c o m m u n i t y i n t h e A b r o l h o s l s l a n d s for their unending support, particularly Bill and Mave Dransfield, Johnny Gliddon and Dave and PetraJohnson ofBeacon Island and Maurie Glazier of Post Office Island.
The Batavia project could never have been carried out without the institutional backing of the Western Auslralian Museum which, in turn, is supported by the State Government of Western Auslraiia. Such an undertnking was only possible because of the far-sighted action of the State Government in 1963, when the first of a series of Acts was introduced 10 protect the historic shipwrecks of Western Australia for posterity. This action, together with the active support of me government and its ministers responsible for the Museum, enabled proper support facilities and staff to be brought together by the Museum to fonn the Department of Maritime Archaeology. The State Government has generously funded the Department and lheBatavia project The Auslraiian Federal Government has supported the project through a series of grants provided under the Australian Research Grants Scheme and, since the implementation of the HistoricShipwrecksAct1976,throughannualgranlSinaidfrom therelevantFederalMinistries.lwouldparticularlylike to thank the Trustees of lhe Western Australian Museum, the Director, John Bannister, and the Head of Division, lan Crawford, for their support over the years.
I have benefitted by a tremendous amount of help, advice and discussion from scholars of many countries. It is possible to name but a few here, among .them Bas Kist, of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, and Jan-Piet Puype, of the Nederlands Scheepvaart Museum. Additionally, during a recent study-leave to Europe supported by the Netherlands Ministry ofCulture, I was privileged to spend a most interesting period ofstudy at the Slichting Nederland Bouwt V.O.C. Retourschip, Lelystad. I worked there in conjunction with Robert Parthesius assisting in a project, under the direction ofWillemVos,toreconstructa 17th-centuryretourschipofatypesimilartotheBatavia.Iwouldlike,additionally,10 thank Jaap llruijn of Leiden University, Gerrit vander Heide and various people wilhin the Algemeen Rijksarchief who have helped with archival material. Most of the typesetting and editorial work for this book was completed in Oxford, and I am gralefulto the Committee for Archaeology of Oxford University for offering me a Research Associateship at the Institute of Archaeology, and to Professor S&ln McGrail for his help wilh this. In Australia, I would like to thank Hugh Edwards, John Penrose, of Cortin University, and Frank Breeze, of the University ofWeSlern Auslralia, for their help.
Finally, I would like to thank my wife, Susan Green, for her help with the production and editing of this book.
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