The Batavia: Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Madness. Episode 2/4

[@TheEurasian7]

This is the best Batavia documentary I've seen so far, and I've scoured the internet for years for stuff like this.

[@DefraggedHistory]

Glad you found it!

[@bobeden5027]

In the Geraldton Museum they show a B grade movie of this event, well worth a watch if you are in the area. I heard that Russel Crowe has bought the film rights to "The Islands of Angry Ghosts", should be epic, I wonder which role he will choose?

[@johnlewisiii2076]

10/10! I like that you add colorful commentary on the likely internalized thoughts, motivations and fears of the cast characters. This is very helpful in tracking the various parties at various locations in the story, and it holds grand narrative together.

[@drintx5734]

The 60 Minutes Australia show brought me here. Archeologists are digging up the skeletons from the Batavia on the island.

[@houseofschenck6230]

This video deserves more views.

[@anitahamel4576]

I can't believe how riveting this story is The narration was fantastic!

[@DefraggedHistory]

Thank you. You're too kind.

[@1956vaughan]

The narration is appalling! Sounds like a teenager from the Bronx!

[@jonathanbaincosmologyvideo3868]

@@1956vaughan She's from Cape Town. Its a condition caused by ancient nuclear fallout around Table mountain. You had to be there.

[@spikespa5208]

I like her voice.

[@markmurphycreativedesign438]

I can't agree more, I'm on episode 2 and loving every minute. I've watched KZbin since it's inception and this is the first comment I've ever left. Fantastic job.

[@EricvanDorp191]

It sounds like time-traveling, how it is spoken, she was right there!.. Does not matter, I like it a lot! how it is told and what I see is perfectly okay! Defragged History, great job, no complaints!

[@mikeFolco]

Absolutely captivating. Will binge watch this channel’s archives over the weekend.

[@RobbertdeVrij-nv7jh]

Geweldige documentaire, onvoorstelbaar hoe bloed dorstig het eraan toe ging en zelfs vrouwen en kinderen werden afgeslacht!

[@dalehansenab]

The book “Night Ship” was about this. Great read

[@pepehabichuela1004]

Great documentary, awesome narration. Thank you very much.

[@dashore]

The Narrator made this a rivetting tale ;Fantastic job.

[@janviljoen7001]

A story not even Hollywood could come up with. I liked part 1 as it gives a true history of the old history and later settlement of the Cape, in 1652. The VOC was bigger than any listed company today with even its own paid soldiers and buccaneers. And the VOC, after all these happenings chose Jan van Riebeeck to start the Cape refreshment station, which grew into South Africa today.

[@spikespa5208]

Given the character and actions of so many of the company men involved, it's a wonder that company got so big. A 'cluster' to be sure.

[@Person0fColor]

@@spikespa5208 Do you even understand what goes into creating something like the VOC? LOLz Those guys were on the fuckkkking edge

[@spikespa5208]

@@Person0fColorDidn't say impossible. Just a wonder.

[@kaarenremley7585]

I really appreciate your story approach. Your visuals are helpful.... And most history lessons are bland. You are not boring!

[@gigikay1734]

Loved every minute! Thank you!

[@jodyross6185]

the narrater is very easy to listen to, good history story

[@janviljoen7001]

Yes her Dutch accent in unmistakingly there.

[@GTMemes2]

You do the best most in depth history docs anywhere Please please please please Do one on the bounty mutiney😊

[@Gerryjournal]

Much of the ship and and shiplife remnants were finally brought in the Fremantle where a museum had been purposely built for them. I took the photographs for the Australian Geographic magazine in the early 70s

[@alexhatfield4448]

This is phenomenal, we need more of this type of content asap! Do some Dutch wars of independence pike and shot stuff!

[@DefraggedHistory]

Do you mean the 20-episode series I did on the Eighty Years' War?

[@bobeden5027]

In the Geraldton Museum they show a B grade movie of this event, well worth a watch if you are in the area. I heard that Russel Crowe has bought the film rights to "The Islands of Angry Ghosts", should be epic, I wonder which role he will choose?

[@chriscarey1478]

Great video, excellent format. 😊

[@wreckashore9283]

Excellent presentation

[@mikeFolco]

The raft of the Medusa is another insane naval story.

[@DefraggedHistory]

I'll have to look into that some more. Thanks.

[@Vexarax]

Raft of Medusa is my favourite I've been obsessed with it since my teens. Then Batavia and the tragedy of the whaleship Essex are my other faves. The Essex tragedy inspired Moby Dick- an 80 foot whale attacked and sank their ship and they ended up surviving for months at sea by eating each other :c the book is called In the Heart of the Sea if you're interested, it's written using first hand accounts from the handful of survivors! :D Medusa is still one of the most horrific sea survival stories in known history though - and the accounts from the survivors are so detailed 💚

[@VanessaScrillions]

This is fantastic. Thank you so much for these amazing videos

[@dang328]

This is amazing

[@difdaf436]

Just found your channel.. omg so good!!! I love this really long and in depth form of history..

[@noneofyourbizness]

superb

[@Depipro]

When you mentioned Jeronimus giving red velvet to his personal guard, for a moment I thought you were going to say: "Like Palpatine's personal guard". I believe his ensuing behaviour justifies my expectations, even if that wasn't what you actually said afterward.

[@gailniven201]

Most excellent!

[@randymarsh27]

This is quality content 🤌🏻 Well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@difdaf436]

Great channel!

[@justmeonthebeach]

53:53 Interestingly .. Lord Commander is an ancestor of ... 🧐

[@noneofyourbizness]

lucky it was June...winter in the area. my god it's so hot there in summer (Nov to Mar). last Jan (2022) i was working near there and it was 123f / 50.9C !! jesesus! equal hottest day on record

[@thegutzfam]

This is a real story worthy of a #Netflix movie or a series. I hope netflix get hold of #Batavia's story so we can see it.. have #JohnnyDepp play Pelsaert. I know he's old for the role but I think he's suitable.. or #OrlandoBloom, why not? I miss the Carribean crew.

[@twstf8905]

Awesome 👍

[@champton911]

I love your narration. Haters gonna hate

[@calliesoutherland9435]

Truly legendary 🙌 work.

[@TELLBOY_E17]

That voice nd pronouncements 110%!!!

[@mrkemblegilstrap]

Dude, you are hilarious!

[@richardmann3396]

Excellent

[@adrianaaraujo8634]

Thanks

[@marijnfly]

Great series! Little mistake: 4:20 Latitude and longitude are the wrong way around in the graphic.

[@robhendrikx2198]

That's what I thought too, but it's just a matter of how you look at it. Latitude is distance from the equator, longitude is distance from the zero meridian. It fits. The word longitude is written along a meridian, and the word latitude is written along a latitude line (if that's what it's called in English).

[@luismaciel7463]

Fantastic documentary. Just a note from a portuguese: "Abrolhos" means "Abre'olhos" or "Abre os olhos" (open eyes!!!, like a warning), not "abri vossos olhos" *which means "I opened your eyes"(in plural). Where can I get that Pelsaert portrait art?

[@VersusARCH]

That is not Pesaert but a painting of another man used (as is vast majority of portraits in the video - those marked wot an asterisk *) for illustrative purposes, since no contemporary portrait survives if there ever was one to begin with. It is explained at the beginning. The few genuine portraits are that of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the VOC governor general of the Indies, that of Sultan Agung of the Mataram Empire, that of captain Jacob Jacobson of the Saardam and a few of the people from Batavia if memory serves.

[@luismaciel7463]

@@VersusARCH Thanks

[@michals4249]

So many stupid decisions. People should learn from mistakes, unfortunately they don;t. Interesting, engaging story.

[@beatrix1120]

It didn't help that half the people on board where only interested in saving their own skin, at best. Or psychotic murderers at worst.

[@davehightower1851]

300 sailors and passangers and the 2 small boats could have removed most of the barrels of food and water from the ship along with wood rope sails from the Bativa where they could have set up a solid camp and also built a couple of small boats for island hoping. All done in a week or 2 before the storm took the Bativa out. They could have set up a solid camp and then the Captain could have left for Java.

[@scipioafricanus2285]

Epic

[@JeffreyMcgee-w1u]

Still unreal but true

[@paulwilson4383]

Enjoyed episode 1. Yes, the only reason we English ultimately prevailed in the battle for naval supremacy is that you guys ran out of trees! 😅

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

Hey, are those rocks bad for the ship ? Nah, it's just the waves.

[@johnonorgan]

boatswain and forcastle wrong

[@pmlwien]

100 Yards = 91,4 Meter

[@Tony-1950]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@johnonorgan]

also gunwale

[@theworldisavampire3346]

Y'all stole this material from Author Peter Fitsimons without giving any credit. Shame

[@DefraggedHistory]

Or... Just check all the sources I used. Including Pelsaerts Journal. Don't be so uninformed.

[@sooz5703]

I've read his book..it's easy enough to tell she hasn't used it for this.

[@Gerryjournal]

Good and interesting but the continual editorialising, the "you funny" etc takes away from the documentary. Pity

[@sooz5703]

i don't see what it takes away. . nothing is lost.

[@steveroperfilms]

Although I enjoyed the doco, I would have preferred a straight VO without the trite and smart arsed comments. Cheers.

[@robhendrikx2198]

Well, some of us like smart ass comments. There are so few of them around.😅

[@watluktwel6767]

You married?

[@julieannspas518]

Gov Generals COAN

[@DefraggedHistory]

Wait... are you trying to say that the Dutch pronunciation of a Dutch name is wrong?

[@robhendrikx2198]

No, Coen is pronounced like in English a (rac-)coon.

[@hudsonslim3169]

The smarmy sarcasm and childish 'millennial-speak' are inappropriate for a documentary. Please stick to the facts.

[@awright119021]

Orrrrr she can do it how she wants and you can make your own video if you want it done your way. Don't be a twatwaffle when you are watching free content.

[@Raadpensionaris]

Ok boomer

[@VanessaScrillions]

Lmfao. Get off the internet

[@Gerryjournal]

Thoroughly agree

[@JamesRodgers-e4u]

BORING

[@georgerodgerson4190]

Are these portraits accurate anyone 🤔