The July 1653 list shows Jan Pouwelszoon commanding a ship called the Vlissingen. Presumably, this was the newly built ship that was listed in the July 1654 list. This was from the "Staet van Oorlogh te Water voor den Jaera 1654". That list provides only minimal information. The Vlissingen was 130 feet long, from stem to sternpost and carried only 34 guns. That was actually the trend, post First Anglo-Dutch War. For example, the Vrede, a substantial ship, carried only 32 guns after the war. During the war, she carried about 44 guns.
If the 1654 Vlissingen was the same as the 1653 ship, then she may well have been at the Gabbard, and was certainly at the Battle of Scheveningen.
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