Dutch Captain: Jacob Cleijdijck (Cleydyck or Kleijdijck)

Jacob Cleijdijck served the Admiralty of the Noorderkwartier for the last part of Witte de With's relief expedition to Brazil. Jacob Cleijdijck relieved Lieven de Zeeuw in command of the Wapen van Nassau (38 guns), perhaps in November 1649. He left Brazil on 9 December 1649. He was courtmartialed, as he was one of the five captains considered to be accessories to mutiny. In the arming prior to the First Anglo-Dutch War, Jacob Cleijdijck was employed again, this time by the Rotterdam Directors. He was given command of the ship Meerman, which was a 30-gun ship with a crew of 120 men. He took part in Tromp's voyage to the Shetlands in July and August 1652, and then fought in the Battle of Dungeness, in early December. He also fought in the Battle of Portland, where his ship, the Meerman, was sunk. He survived and was given command of the late Corstiaen Corstiaenszoon's ship, apparently named the Prins te Paard (38 guns). He apparently fought in the Battle of the Gabbard in June 1653 and in the Battle of Scheveningen, in August. In July, he had served on a court martial board for captains accused of disobedience at the Battle fo the Gabbard. In June 1665, he commanded the Rotterdam ship Dordrecht (46 guns) at the Battle of Lowestoft. He was assigned to Jan Evertsen's Second Squadron. Sources:

1. C. T. Atkinson, Ed., The First Dutch War, Vol.IV, 1910
2. Dr. Carl Ballhausen, Der Erste Englisch-Höllandische Seekrieg 1652-1654, 1923
3. Frank Fox, A Distant Storm: the Four Days' Battle of 1666, 1996
4. Dr. S.R. Gardiner, Ed., The First Dutch War, Vol.I, 1898
5. Michael S. Robinson, Van de Velde Paintings, Vol.I, 1990
6. M. S. Robinson, R. E. J. Weber, The Willem van de Velde Drawings in the Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 3 Vols, 1979