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The Amsterdam

Bulverhythe, near Hastings

A Dutch treasure ship whose wreck appears at very low tides.

The Amsterdam was a Dutch East India Company ship on her maiden voyage when her rudder broke in a storm. She was run aground on the beach near Hastings and sank into the soft clay.

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When
January 1749
Where
50.8500, 0.5350
Group
Shipwrecks

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Visible from the beach west of St Leonards at very low tides.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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