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Thursday, June 01, 2006

The Admiralty of Zeeland ships in July 1653

There were twelve Admiralty of Zeeland ships lying at Vlissingen in early July 1653. These are numbered 79 to 90 in the list. I will make another attempt at this list. They are listed as follows:
79  Good. Very not approached. Pressed to help.
80  Unready. 
81  Ready. (I can't read the rest of the note)
82  Unready.
83  Ready. (somthing about being old, and I cann't read the rest)
84  Unready. A hired ship.
85  Ready. Very small and old.
86  Ready.
87  Captured (probably the Neptunis, commanded by Adriaan Jansz den Oven)
88  Ready. Very small.
89  Unready. Poor sailer and old.
90  Ready. Vice-Admiral Jan Evertsen
I do not believe that we can list the ships in detail, but we should be able to list candidate ships for the twelve:
 
Neptunis          28 guns Adriaan Jansz de Oven
Gekroonde Liefde  23 guns Dingeman Cats
Hollandia         38 guns Jan Eversten, Adriaan Banckert flag captain
Amsterdam         30 guns Adriaan Kempen
Wapen van Zeeland 30 guns Cornelis Evertsen de Oude
Zeeridder         28 guns Gillis Janszoon
West Cappel       26 guns Claes Jansz Sanger
Eendracht         24 guns Andries Fortuijn
Liefde            30 guns Frans Mangelaer
10                ?       Jacob Wolfertszoon
11                ?       ?
12                ?       ?
This list is hard to complete. That is also the main reason I have not been able to complete the March 1653 list. I cannot fill in the names for Zeeland. We believe that there should be the Meerin (34 guns) and the Liefde (26 guns). The latter had been Joost Bankert's ship. I am apparently going to need help to finish the list, if it can be filled in completely.

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