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Sunday, April 30, 2006

The Zwarte Beer: so much for my theory

Carl Stapel pointed out that after March 1653, when Jacob Claeszoon Boet died, the Staten van Holland appointed Jan Cornelisz Oly to command the Zwarte Beer, so the ship had obviously not been captured. The English prize Bear was some other Dutch ship, apparently, named Beer (perhaps a Straatsvaarder or West Indiaman).

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