page_title: Vlissingen Naval Base
section_title: The equipment shipyard
hierarchical_section_title: Vlissingen Naval Base / Rijkswerf Vlissingen / The equipment shipyard
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Luchtfoto van Vlissingen, NederlandEnglish: Aerial photograph of Vlissingen, The Netherlands
context_page_description: Vlissingen Naval Base was a base for the Admiralty of Zeeland, and later the Dutch Navy. It has a number of major marine facilities of historic significance. It housed a shipyard for the Admiralty of Zeeland, and the national shipyard Rijkswerf Zeeland. Shipyard de Schelde would take over the grounds of the Rijkwerf, and still continues to build warships as Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding.
context_section_description: At first the Rijkswerf was a simple successor to the old French naval base. It was a naval base and a ship yard meant to equip ships that were new, pulled from reserve, or returned from sea. In this respect it was more than a simple base. Ships could unload their guns, masts and rigging for storage, and then be laid up or get careened. After that they could be re-armed etc. An early 19th century map shows that most of the terrain of the previous yard remained rather empty.
caption: Zeemagazijn and sea lock on the right, Dock and Dishoeck house on the left photo 1920-1940
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