Dutch Captain: Pieter Teunissen Bonteboer

Pieter Teunissen Bonteboer served the Admiralty of Amsterdam. He commanded the hired ship Zwarte Arend in the Mediterranean Sea. He fought in the Battle of Livorno on 14 March 1653. There is a Van de Velde picture of the battle that was drawn based on the accounts, a Willem van de Velde de Oude was not present, as no other artist was, either. The Zwarte Arend took the English Peregrine, after the Peregrine had lost her mizzenmast to the Roode Haas in a 1-1/2 hour fight. Sources:

1. R. C. Anderson, "The First Dutch War in the Mediterranean," The Mariner's Mirror, Vol.49, No.4, November 1963.
2. C. T. Atkinson, Ed., The First Dutch War, Vol.IV, 1910.