Den Helder - Willemsoord

A little way east of Den Helder, beyond the North Holland Canal, is the harbor of Nieuwe Diep, which together with the naval arsenal, the dockyards and the Royal Naval College is known as Willemsoord. In the gardens of the Naval Institute are the mast of a gunboat blown up by Lieutenant van Speyk during the Belgian revolution (picture in Naval Museum) and four cannon from Admiral de Ruyter's flagship "Zeven Provinciën".