Collectors replica tall ship hand made in teak with superb detail & craftsmanship.

Dimensions: 990mm L x 330mm W x 810mm H
This ship is supplied fully assembled and ready to display

In 1652 the Dutch East India Company, yielding to repeated petitions and recommendations from their ships' officers, at last decided to establish a post at Table Bay. They sent three small ships, the Dromedaris, the Reijger and the Goede Hoop under the command of the 23-year-old Jan Antony van Riebeeck, a ship's surgeon, to establish a stronghold on the shores of Table Bay.

Their objective was to grow vegetables, barter for livestock with the Hottentot tribes and build a hospital and sanctuary for the repair of ships. Jan van Riebeeck's first fort, subsequently replaced by the existing Castle of Good Hope, was Cape Town's first building.