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Wooden box with hinged lid
Box, wooden with a hinged lid. It is lined with green baize. Made from the wood of Dutch ship 'Matthias' or 'Charles V'. Inside lid: 'This Box was part of the "Matthias" or "Charles" the Vth Dutch Men-of -war which were sunk in St Mary's Creek, Chatham, in the year 1667 when the Dutch Fleet came up the Medway in that year and was found by a party of convicts during the excavating of the new docks and Basins at the Extension Works St Mary's Island HM Dockyard Chatham in the year 1876. Thos Luker. Metropolitan Police.'
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Object Details
| ID: | REL0550 |
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| Collection: | Relics |
| Type: | Box |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Events: | Second Anglo-Dutch War: Attack on the Medway, 1667 |
| Vessels: | Charles V fl.1667 (Netherlandish); Mathias (1653) |
| Date made: | After 1876 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 75 mm x 195 mm x 105 mm |
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