page_title: Rijkswerf (Amsterdam)
section_title: Shipyard of the Amsterdam Admiralty
hierarchical_section_title: Rijkswerf (Amsterdam) / Predecessors of the Rijkswerf / Shipyard of the Amsterdam Admiralty
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Plattegrond uit 1796 van 's Lands Werf, Zeemagazijn en Dok op Kattenburg in Amsterdam (noorden onder). Uitsnede uit de stadsplattegrond van uitgeverij Mortier Covens en Zoon.
context_page_description: The Rijkswerf in Amsterdam was a Dutch shipyard that build a significant amount of warships for the Royal Netherlands Navy.
context_section_description: In the time of the Dutch republic naval affairs were handled by 5 local admiralties. The Admiralty_of_Amsterdam was the most important of these. The First_Anglo-Dutch_War proved the need for a professional navy. On 12 August 1655, the admiralty therefore got the entire western strip of Kattenburg island for the construction of an arsenal and ship yard. The arsenal was quickly constructed on the southern extremity of Kattenburg island in 1656. It was called 's Lands Zeemagazijn and now houses the National Maritime Museum. 
  The rest of Kattenburg island stretches north along the Kattenburgerstraat. On the west side of this street the former yard is still enclosed by a very long seventeenth century building and a long old wall that reaches almost to the north end of Kattenburg Island. The slipways of the yard were immediately on the other (west) side of this enclosure. 
  From the arsenal and the north end of Kattenburg, dams reached to the west, and enclosed an almost square stretch of water called 's lands Dok. In this dock the ships of the admiralty could lay In_ordinary. This was the usual condition for warships in the time of the Dutch republic. Upper parts of the mast, most of the rigging, sails, guns etc. were removed, and stored in the adjacent arsenal. Almost the whole the dock has now been filled up, and is occupied by modern buildings.
caption: The yard viewed from the north, late 18th century, by Mortier Covens en Zoon
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