AMSTERDAM – Fire consumed a replica of the 17th-century flagship of the Dutch East India Company in the northern Netherlands yesterday.
The three-mast tall ship, which was built in the 1980s, was moored at Holland Village in Nagasaki, Japan, for many years before it returned to the northern Dutch port of Den Helder in 2003 and became a tourist attraction.Dutch broadcaster NOS said the fire broke out on the Prins Willem early yesterday.The cause of the fire was being investigated..The original ship, built in 1649, was the largest vessel of the Dutch trading company. It sank in 1662 off Madagascar. – Nampa-AP
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