Vlieland Strandings

The recorded history of vessels driven ashore and wrecked on Vlieland, one of the Dutch Wadden Sea islands on the approach to the former Zuiderzee and Amsterdam. The shallow tidal flats and the Vliestroom channel made the area a graveyard for sailing ships outbound from or homeward to the Texel and Vlie roadsteads, including East Indiamen. Beach strandings and finds feed Dutch maritime heritage and museum collections on the island. The term covers a body of local wreck history rather than one named excavation.