I believe that we can safely say that we have a fairly good knowledge of the States' ships in the service of the Admiralty of Friesland in March 1653. I hope that this is not too bad of a duplication of what I might have already written. There were just four listed in the list in the appendix to Vol.I of
Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Zeewezen:
Ship name Guns Crew Commander Length Beam Hold
Groningen 38 110 Hendrick Janszoon Camp 132ft 31ft 14.5ft
Zevenwolden 38 140 Frederick Stellingwerff
Breda 28 110 Adriaan Bruynsvelt 120ft 29ft
Omlandia 28 110 122ft 26.5ft 13ft
One ship missing from the list of States' ships is the jacht
Graaf Willem (12 guns), commanded by Jan Coenders. This was built for the Admiralty of Friesland in 1644 and her dimensions were 74ft x 18.5ft x 7ft.
Sources:
- C. T. Atkinson, Ed., The First Dutch War, Vol. VI, 1930
- J. C. De Jonge, Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Zeewezen, Vol.I, 1858
- A. Vreugdenhil, Ships of the United Netherlands 1648-1702, 1938
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