Wassenaar 1693
Adm Name Length Beam Hold Guns In service
M Wassenaar 145ft 39-3/4ft 15-1/2ft 60 1692-1716
Built in Rotterdam in 1692 by Van Leeuwen and is an ship of the line of the 4th Rate.
Sistership = Zeelandia (1693)
Armament: 24-18pdr, 22-12pdr, and 14-4pdr
Date Captain Guns Sailors Soldiers Notes
1693 Cornelis van Brakel Cruising in the Channel
6/1695 Cornelis van Brakel 60 300 in harbor at Spithead
9/1695 Cornelis van Brakel 60 Mediterranean Sea and Spain
1696 Cornelis van Brakel 60 325 With Almonde in the Channel
1697 Cornelis van Brakel 60 Cruise in the North Sea
1698 Cornelis van Brakel 60
5/1699 Jan van der Goes 60 Convoy service in the
Mediterranean Sea
1700 Jan van der Goes 60 in the Mediterranean Sea
1701 Laid up
1702 Jacob van Cooperen 60 Battle of Vigos
1703 Johan van Convent 60 26-4 to 17-9 in
the North Sea squadron.
1704 Cornelis van Brakel 64 In a calm, attacked by
galleys from Ostende
1707 Cornelis van der Graaf 64 in the Mediterranean Sea
11/1708 Cornelis van der Graaf 64 in the Netherlands
The second ship with this name and named after the glorious country estate.
It was built with extraordinary funds.
In 1716, the ship was useless and sold for breaking up.
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Saturday, August 20, 2005
The Dutch ship: Wassenaer (1693)
This is another good piece by Mr. Carl Stapel. This is about the Wassenaer, built in 1693 by the Admiralty of the Maze:
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