In 2023 renewed attention was paid by Dutch media to the silk dress and other high-quality objects retrieved from a seventeenth-century shipwreck recently found near Texel. The suggestion that the dress originated from the retinue of Queen Henrietta Maria, who lost a baggage ship while travelling to the Netherlands in 1642, was quickly dismissed. However, the connection may well be real, as sources reveal that on the queen’s return journey to England in a violent storm, another two baggage ships were shipwrecked, one of them near Texel. In that same storm a second ship went down near Texel, and it might be this unidentified merchantman of which remains have been found, the wreck site also containing the dress and chests with other valuables. The loss of both ships near Texel, in February 1643, was reported in a contemporary newspaper.


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    Title :

    The Silk Dress and the Shipwreck: A seventeenth-century wreck near Texel


    Additional title:

    <italic>The Silk Dress and the Shipwreck</italic>
    <italic>The Mariner’s Mirror</italic>


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    The Mariner's Mirror ; 111 , 1 ; 22-40


    Publication date :

    2025-01-02


    Size :

    19 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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