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Another one of this series, this time an image taken in front of one of the dry docks of the Museum harbor 'Willemsoord' in Den Helder, The Netherlands.

Shown is the HNLMS 'Bonaire' a decommissioned steamship of the Royal Netherlands Navy (launched at Rotterdam on May 12th, 1877), who's being overhauled now in this dry dock. She (as ships are female) is the oldest surviving Dutch naval vessel built in The Netherlands.

She is a three-master, which as a propulsion had a steam-driven propellor as well as the sails. The steam installation consisted of two Scottish boilers and a two-cylinder horizontal steam piston machine.

The iron ship's skin of Bonaire is completely covered with teak beams. This wood was used to fix zinc plates, with the aim of preventing fouling. That didn't work, but the zinc plates did help as a cathodic protection for the iron hull.

Her efforts as a warship have been limited to a few trips to the Caribbean against pirates from Venezuela and Colombia.