HNLMS ''Bonaire'' was a fourth-class screw
steamship of the
Royal Netherlands Navy, now under restoration as a
museum ship.
''Bonaire'' was built for the Royal Netherlands Navy as a
steam frigate
Steam frigates (including screw frigates) and the smaller steam corvettes, steam sloops, steam gunboats and steam schooners, were steam-powered warships that were not meant to stand in the line of battle. There were some exceptions like for exa ...
with
barquentine
A barquentine or schooner barque (alternatively "barkentine" or "schooner bark") is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts.
Modern barquentine sailing ...
rig and a retractable
screw
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, and was
launched at
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"Ne ...
on 12 May 1877.
From 1924 she served at
Delfzijl
Delfzijl (; gos, Delfsiel) is a city and former municipality with a population of 25,651 in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. Delfzijl was a sluice between the Delf and the Ems, which became fortified settlement in ...
as living quarters for the Dutch Nautical College, and was renamed ''Abel Tasman''.
After ''Abel Tasman'' lay abandoned for many years, a restoration programme began in 2005 at
Den Helder to secure the future of the ship as a floating
museum
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.
See also
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List of museum ships
References
External links
Stichting BONAIRE – the charity that undertakes the restoration of Zr.Ms. BONAIRE
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Museum ships in the Netherlands
19th-century naval ships of the Netherlands
1877 ships
Ships built in Rotterdam