Wooden box with hinged lid

Box, wooden with a hinged lid. It is lined with green baize. Made from the wood of Dutch ship 'Matthias' or 'Charles V'. Inside lid: 'This Box was part of the "Matthias" or "Charles" the Vth Dutch Men-of -war which were sunk in St Mary's Creek, Chatham, in the year 1667 when the Dutch Fleet came up the Medway in that year and was found by a party of convicts during the excavating of the new docks and Basins at the Extension Works St Mary's Island HM Dockyard Chatham in the year 1876. Thos Luker. Metropolitan Police.'

Object Details

ID: REL0550
Collection: Relics
Type: Box
Display location: Not on display
Events: Second Anglo-Dutch War: Attack on the Medway, 1667
Vessels: Charles V fl.1667 (Netherlandish); Mathias (1653)
Date made: After 1876
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 75 mm x 195 mm x 105 mm