The King’s Gate slipway is a coming and going of Historic ships for maintenance, repair and restoration. We saw another special ship lying there namely the Alida Geziena. The “Alida Geziena” was named after Hinderik Willems Niezen’s ship, “Geziena Alida. When he died in 1888, his daughter Aaltje and her husband Harm Brouwer bought a new iron tjalk from the inheritance, which they named “Alida Geziena. This tjalk is a true “Groninger”: robustly built, with wide hull plates, wide gangways, a wooden anchor pivot and the typical iron wear strips on the head. What is also special about this ship is that it was built like a real seagoing ship and sailed at sea until 1913. In the years that followed, it sailed throughout the Netherlands with all kinds of cargo: linseed, carbide and scrap iron, for example. Alida Geziena has been a houseboat/pleasure boat for many years. Another great start to the week for all.
On the slope of the King’s Gate
