Dutch Captain: Jan ter Stegen (or Verstegen)

Jan ter Stegen commanded the Amsterdam Director's ship Zwarte Raven (30 guns and a crew of 78 men) in June 1645. He was with Witte de With's fleet that forced a convoy of merchant ships into the Sound without paying the toll to the Danes. During the First Anglo-Dutch War, he served the Admiralty of Amsterdam. From the beginning of the war, he commanded the small hired ship, the Keyser (26 guns and a crew of 100 men). He was with the fleet in June 1652 and took part in Tromp's voyage to the Shetlands in July and August. He survived the storm. The Keyser was paid off and Jan ter Stegen was appointed as captain of the Prinses Aemilia (28 guns) when Willem van der Zaan was moved to the Campen in place of his dead brother, after the Battle of Portland. The Prinses Aemilia was in the Texel roads on 17 April 1653, with Witte de With's squadron. In the event, at the Battle of the Gabbard, the Prinses Aemilia was commanded in the battle by Jan ter Stegen's lieutenant Jan Franszoon Smit. The Prinses Aemilia was lost at the Gabbard. The Prinses Aemilia was one of four ships that had become tangled after a collision. One, the Frisian jacht Prins Willem escaped while the rest were taken (the Neptunis, the Prinses Aemilia, and the Sint Matheeus). Sources:

1. C. T. Atkinson, Ed., The First Dutch War, Vol.IV, 1910.
2. C.T. Atkinson, Ed., The First Dutch War, Vol.V, 1912.
3. Johan E. Elias, Schetsen uit de geschiedenis van ons zeewezen, Vol.V, 1928.
4. Dr. S.R. Gardiner, Ed., The First Dutch War, Vol.I, 1898.
5. G. W. Kernkamp, De Sleutels van de Sont, 1890.