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Saturday, May 21, 2005

Thanks to the Staet van Oorlog te Water for 1654, we know many Dutch ship armaments

It is hard to know if by July 1654, the armaments for Dutch ships that had recently fought in the First Anglo-Dutch War had changed much. There is some reason to think that they did, at least in some cases, as there was a group of ships that had their armaments reduced by this time. In other cases, the numbers of guns are similar to what they are known to have had during the war, and we can at least hope that they had not changed from what they had been. The 1654 list is strange, in that there is at least one ship there that had been lost during the recent war. For example, the 1654 lists the West Cappelle, the ship commanded by Claes Janszoon Sanger, which was sunk at Scheveningen. I believe that I have all of these in my unpublished manuscript "Dutch Ships 1620-1700" (2004). The format is such that some details have been omitted. A good bit of the 1654 Staet appeared in Vreugdenhil's list, although he made some curious omissions. For example, we know the captured English ship Leopard's (Luipaard) Dutch dimensions (145ft x 35ft x 14ft in Amsterdam feet). I am still hoping that I can find the source for much that is in the early part of Vreugdenhil that is not in the 1654 list. Very likely, there would be some captain-ship correlations made and some armaments listed. Vreugdenhil omitted all that sort of information, due to the nature of his list.

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