Willemsoord

Willemsoord is a huge former dockyard of the Royal Netherlands Navy in Den Helder. It is now a maritime museum, housing the Dutch Navy Museum and the Nationaal Reddingmuseum Dorus Rijkers. In 2009 the reproduction of the Dutch East India Company deliver Prins Willem which changed into positioned in a dock burned down. In 1811 Napoleon Bonaparte visited Den Helder. He ordered Jan Blanken Jansz. To construct the most important naval base and shipyard of the Netherlands in Den Helder.

In 1822 the primary homes had been equipped: Dock I, Wet Dock, Sea Sluice, Pump House with steam engine and Yard Canal. Between 1857 and 1866 a brand new Dock II and a new Pump Building were constructed. In the primary half of of the 20th century the Workbench building, the Kettle manufacturing unit, the shipmakers administrative center, the rigging and sailmakers workshop, magazins and other workshops were built. The country wide yard, Dutch 'Rijkswerf' changed into constructed round a wet dock. The moist dock turned into dug out via hand from 1812 to 1823. The soil turned into used to elevate the encircling grounds.