Warship building at Flushing, Netherlands according to a description of Nicolaas van Kampen published in 1837

Nicolaas van Kampen published in 1837 his book, describing the Netherlands including Luxemburg, the latter country because the Dutch king was grand duke of Luxembourg. He mentioned that after the peace treaty of 1814 the navy construction yard with belongings transferred from Antwerp, Belgium towards Flushing, Netherlands. In fact, Flushing was originally a naval base with already dock yard facilities of the admiralty of Zealand. Since the 16th century were warships here built. Van Kampen wrote that there was now a beautiful, excellent building available with all facilities for fitting out and building warships. In 1824 around 600 men worked at this complex. For some time ago were 2-80 guns built, called Zeeuw and Neptunus under two roofs with the height of church-towers costing 180.000 Dutch guilders.(1)

Source

Nicolaas G. van Kampen. Beschrijving van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden of der XVII Nederlandsche provinciën, benevens het groot-hertogdom Luxemburg. Haarlem, 1837. p. 335. Digitized by Google.

Note

1. See also the note “Dutch ships-of-the-line building at Flushing in 1823 as described in a diary”, and the note dealing with De Zeeuw while visiting Russia.