PRINS WILLEM Fire

Fire has destroyed the tall ship PRINS WILLEM, a replica of the 17th-century flagship of the Dutch East India Company in the northern Netherlands. The three-mast tall ship, which was built in the 1980s, in 2003 became a tourist attraction in the northern Dutch port of Den Helder.
The original ship, built in 1649, was the largest ship of the Dutch trading company. It sank in 1662 off Madagascar.