DEN HELDER, FORT KIJKDUIN & TEXEL NDS Tour 25 –28 June 2017 Booking Form & Itinerary This exclusive maritime tour of the Dutch Naval Base at Den Helder, Fort Kijkduin (part of the Dutch Defence Lines) and the award-winning Kaap Skil Maritime Museum on Texel features behind-the-scenes tours with local guides, staying in a mid-price central Den Helder hotel. Getting there: own travel to Amsterdam, group travel to Den Helder and return. Walking will be limited to museums etc, no long hikes! Book early to avoid disappointment – 15 places only.

Day 1 Sun 25 June am travel to Den Helder from Amsterdam by train Navy Days Den Helder Marinemuseum • Public events (activities mainly on the dike from 10:00) • Departure Ships (from 12.00) • Parade of SAIL (flagship KM) (from about 15.00) • Sailing Hospitality in Dutch Tall Ships, public sailing (afternoon) Day 2 Mon 26 June morning visit Fort Kijkduin Huisduinen afternoon visit Den Helder Marinemuseum / Willemsoord

Day 3 Tues 27 June Ferry to Texel and bus to Kaap Skil, Oudeschild Tues 27 June Return bus to the ferry to Den Helder Day 4 Wed 28 June Return to Amsterdam Accommodation Hotel Wienerhof is located near the main shopping streets and museums of Den Helder and opposite the railway station, which offers good transport links. A range of rooms has been reserved. Standard Tour cost : £150 Early bird cost £130 Single B&B for 3 nights € 317} Select your room below; pay this price Standard twin B&B for 3 nights per room € 347} direct to the hotel when you arrive. Comfort double B&B for 3 nights per room € 377} NB Extra: local taxes € 2.50 p.p.p.n. The tour price includes travel, guides and museum entries. It does not include daytime/evening meals. • Early bird booking by 9 April for best room choice: £130.00 - final booking: 30 April 2017: £150.00 • Early booking is recommended as only 15 places are available – first come, first served! • It is a condition of booking that you have holiday insurance during the Tour. Payment : return one booking form per person to the Treasurer by 9 April / 30 April 2017: David Jenkins, 5 Beeby Way, Carlton, Bedfordshire, England, MK43 7LW. Preferred 1 : PayPal. Go to the PayPal website and ask to send money. Enter email: [email protected] ; enter amount and click OK; 2: Bank transfer : Naval Dockyards Society (Sort Code 60-09-16, Account No. 51358719, IBAN-Number: GB73NWBK60091651358719, BIC NWBKGB2L), NatWest plc, Greenwich Branch, 2 Greenwich Church Street, London, SE10 9BQ. 1 & 2: Please confirm to the Treasurer’s email & add Payee Reference: DUTCH TOUR 3. Cheque made out to Naval Dockyards Society and send to the Treasurer as above Enquiries: Ann Coats, 44 Lindley Avenue, Southsea, England, PO4 9NU [email protected] ……………………………………….……………………………………………………………………………………………… Booking form DEN HELDER & TEXEL NDS Tour Sun 25 June – Wed 28 June 2017 I am booking a Tour place and request Single / Comfort double / Standard twin room I have paid by PayPal/Bank transfer/enclose a non-refundable cheque to Naval Dockyards Society £130/150 Indicate affiliation: NDS / Vrienden van De Witt member Please confirm/delete as required: I am/not disabled / have a medical problem of which NDS should be aware (specify: ). State dietary requirements: Name…………………………….....……………………………………..………………………………………………………….………………………… Address………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...…..……..…………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Telephone…………………………………………..…………………Mobile…………………………………………………………………..……… Email………………………………………………………………………Signed…………………………………….…………Date………….………. DEN HELDER, FORT KIJKDUIN & TEXEL NDS Tour 25 –28 June 2017

Reasons to go! The NDS has organised this tour to complement the Conference: The Dutch Raid on in 1667: its Anglo-Dutch Context and Legacy , and explore the North Holland naval base of Den Helder and Texel Roads. As always, we have unique behind-the-scenes tours and local guides.

Amsterdam Scheepvaartmuseum and Den Helder http://www.netherlands-tourism.com/den-helder/ The Conference will be held in the Amsterdam Admiralty Kattenburg, originally a dockyard, now the Marine Etablissement. It is behind ’s Lands Zeemagazijn, the Admiralty arsenal, now Amsterdam Maritime Museum/Scheepvaartmuseum. Amsterdam , a replica East India ship (1749) is moored at Oosterdok wharf. The federal Dutch navy was organised into five Admiralties: Amsterdam, South Holland (Rotterdam), the North Quarter (Hoorn and Enkhuisen), Zeeland (Vlissingen and Middelburg) and Friesland (Dokkum, later Harlingen). Each had its own navy, admirals, seamen and dockyards, financed from taxes and customs collected at the ports to protect Dutch trade, and by federal subsidies for war activities. We shall experience Den Helder’s Navy Day celebrations on Sunday 25 June http://www.saildenhelder.nl/ In the mid-C18 Den Helder was a fishing village on a promontory with a good harbour which became a naval base. It is separated from the island of Texel by the Marsdiep, a deep tide-race which also connects the North Sea and the Waddenzee. In 1799 Den Helder was the site of a Russo-British landing which attempted to overthrow the Batavian Republic. Napoleon Bonaparte, visiting Den Helder in 1811, ordered the construction of a fort (Kijkduin) and naval dockyard (Willemsoord), built 1813–27. A canal linked Den Helder to Amsterdam. The harbour, which benefits from continuous tides so ice-free, is protected by a granite dyke 6 miles (10 km) long. In 1947 Den Helder became the ’s main base. We shall visit Fort Kijkduin http://www.fortkijkduin.nl/ Marine Museum http://www.marinemuseum.nl/ Willemsoord naval dockyard http://www.willemsoordbv.nl/ The tour will culminate in a ferry trip to Texel, an island of dunes and dykes, where in the C17 over half the adult men earned their living from the sea. Texel Roads/Reede van Texel was the anchorage of the Dutch navy and Dutch East India Company where ships were supplied and awaited favourable winds. We shall see the Reede van Texel model in Kaap Skil, the spectacular museum designed by Mecanoo, which displays artefacts recovered by local fishermen and divers from the many ships wrecked by storms. Kaap Skil, Oudeschild http://www.kaapskil.nl/museumvisit http://www.mecanoo.nl/Projects/project/51/Kaap-Skil-Maritime-and-Beachcombers-Museum/t/0 During the Conference and Tour we shall hear about: • Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp (1598–1653), commander of the Dutch fleet during the First Anglo-Dutch war (1652–54) who was killed at the Battle of Scheveningen in 1653. • Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (1607–76), in nominal command of the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–67), which carried out the in June 1667. The fleet embarked from the Texel. The Dutch captured the English flagship HMS Royal Charles as a trophy. Naval Dockyards Society https://navaldockyards.org/