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Thursday, March 23, 2006

There are several ships in the list of ships from 1642 that we actually can identify

De Jonge's list of Dutch ships from 1642 has no names attached, but we can easily equate several ships to names, because they are so distinctive. One is the Aemilia and the other is the Maagd van Dordrecht (or is it the Maecht van Dordrecht?). De Jonge supplies the following information, which I have augmented:
Adm  Name                  guns   sailors soldiers
M   Aemilia               57     200      40
    (4-36pdr, 11-24pdr, 12-18pdr, 21-12pdr, 9-6pdr)

M   Maagd van Dordrecht   46     140      30
    (10-24pdr, 14-18pdr, 16-12pdr, 6-6pdr)

Z   Vlissingen            34     ?        ?
About any other ships, we would just be guessing. Knowing the Vlissingen is of doubtful utility, since there is no data for her in De Jonge's list.

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