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Saturday, April 15, 2006

From the July 1653 list

We have this list of ships nominally at Vlissingen in July 1653. Actually, there are a few ships at Goeree and a larger number in the Texel roads after the Battle of the Gabbard. The list is largely an outline, but a few ships are named, and fewer still captains are mentioned. This is from part of that list:
The Directors of Hoorne

no. 64  An unready ship: the Sampson (30 guns), 
              commanded by Jacob Pieterszoon Houck

The Directors of Edam

no.65  Captured: The Zon (28 guns), 
                   commanded by Jacob Duijm

Admiralty of the Noorderkwartier

No.66  Ready, for a Commandeur: 
           perhaps the Monnikendam (38 guns),
           flagship of Pieter Florissen

No.67  Ready; in fact very ready

No.68  Ready

No.69  Ready

No.70  Ready

No.71  Ready. Sails well. Small

No.72  Captured: the Stad Medemblik (30 guns), 
                commanded by Pieter Schellinger

No.73  Ready

No.74  Unready

No.75  Very unready. A fluit.

Directors of Monnikendam 

No.76  Captured: the Halve Maan, 
               commanded by Hendrick Pieterszoon

No.77  A good ship, but has damage. A very large ship:
             the ship of Jacob Claeszoon Boot

East India Company at Hoorne

No.79  Unready: 
        perhaps the Profeet Samuel, 
        commanded by Reynst Corneliszoon Sevenhuysen.
        He eventually was ordered to move his crew to 
        the Mars (46 guns), a ship apparently owned by the 
        Enkhuizen Chamber of the VOC.
We know many of the Noorderkwartier ships, but it seems impossible to say to which the numbers referred.

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