The Fleet
When ports were established in Scheveningen and IJmuiden around 1900, it also became possible to use ships without a flat bottom.
As a result, the last ‘bomschuiten’ came ashore in Katwijk in 1913 and the Vuurbaak extinguished its lights a few years later.
The Katwijk fleet eventually grew out to be the largest fleet in the Netherlands in the 1960s!
