Experts speculate about the figurehead that fished the cutter TX 1 out of the North Sea. ‘There have been several naval battles at that spot in the past’

Skipper Cor Vonk is not yet clear about the wooden statue he fished up last week. The co-owner of the Texel fishing vessel TX 1 is waiting for a decision from the experts, who must assess whether the image actually comes from a ship that sank in the North Sea in the seventeenth century.

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