Dorus Rijkers Lifeboat Museum
The national lifeboat museum in the Dutch city of Den Helder was founded in 1982. It is named after the Dutch savior Dorus Rijkers (1847-1928). In the years from 1886 to 1911 he rescued a total of 480 castaways.
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The museum provides information on a total of three floors about the history of the Dutch sea rescue , in particular the Dutch Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People, the Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij .
Various historical resuscitation devices , carriages, tracked vehicles and motor lifeboats in the original and as a model are exhibited. The motor rescue ship "Twenthe" can be boarded. The wind tunnel (up to wind force 10) and especially the fog tunnel convey realistic impressions of the sea rescue. Films and interactive media clearly show the actions of the sea rescuers. On computers and other media, data and facts from distress at sea are shown and the knowledge to prevent them is conveyed in a playful way.
The exhibition is supplemented by accessories and additional information such as B. trouser buoys, helicopter rescue equipment, suits, medals, personal stories from Dutch coastal cities and individual rescue situations from the past 100 years. Radios and navigation devices of various types are exhibited and explained, a Morse code can be tried out.
The five motor lifeboats "Insulinde" (built in 1927), "Johan de Witt" (1941), "Prins Hendrik" (1951), "Javazee" (1967) and "Tjeck Hiddes" (1975), lying in the museum harbor Willemsoord , can be used temporarily can be visited and are partly used for harbor tours.
Most of the information is described in Dutch as well as in English, and there are audio guides in Dutch, English and German.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 57 '29.9 " N , 4 ° 46" 8.3 " E