Batavia (1628 ship)
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Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company. She was built in Amsterdam in 1628 as the flagship of one of the three annual fleets of company ships and sailed that year on her maiden voyage for
Full-scale replica of Batavia
Survivors being transferred from the wrecked Batavia to nearby islands in the ship's boats.
Batavia's Graveyard, now known as Beacon Island, in the Wallabi Group, Abrolhos Islands
Massacre of the survivors
Breaking wheel
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The breaking wheel, also known as the execution wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the Catherine Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Midd
Batavia (1628 ship)
…several others were flogged, keelhauled or dropped from the yardarm on the later voyage back home. Cornelisz' second in command, Jacop Pietersz, was broken on the wheel, the most severe punishment available at the time. Jacobsz, despite being tortured, did not confess to his part in plotting the mutiny and escaped…
Execution wheel (German: Richtrad) with underlays, 18th century; on display at the Märkisches Museum, Berlin
An execution wheel exhibited in the Museum of Cultural History Franziskanerkloster in Zittau, Saxony, Germany, dated 1775; bolted to the lower rim edge is an iron blade-like thrust attachment
Breaking-wheel machine used to execute Matthias Klostermayr, Bavaria, 1772
Illustration of an execution by wheel, Switzerland, 1513