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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

There was a question today about the Leeuw van Amsterdam at the Battle of Dungeness

When the name Leeuw van Amsterdam came up in a question, today, I knew nothing about it, as I had not heard of the ship. It turns out that the only reference to the ship (the Lion of Amsterdam) is in an unofficial account from the Moderate Intelligencer, quoted in The First Dutch War, Vol.III, page 144. This list gives the following Dutch ships lost:
The Lion of Amsterdam (Leeuw van Amsterdam)
the Hope of Rotterdam (Hoop van Rotterdam)
The Christopher of Flushing
   (perhaps the Groote Christoffel van Vlissingen)
The Royal Princess (Prinses Roijael)
The Wonder (?)
Perhaps this bogus list is the reason that Dr. Ballhausen thought that the Admiralty of the Maze ship commanded by Dirck Juynbol and lost in the battle was named the Hoop (Hope). Actually, his ship was named Gelderland (30 guns). No other Dutch warships were lost, as far as we know from published sources.

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