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Friday, August 04, 2006

The Aartsengel Michiel from the papers from Jan Glete

The Aartsengel Michiel (the papers from Jan Glete just call the ship the Engel Michiel) was hired in 1652, fought in the Battle of Plymouth, under De Ruyter's command, and probably fought in the Battle of the Kentish Knock. Later in 1652, the ship was sent to the Mediterranean Sea, where it operated as a storeship for the fleet there. I have seen the Aartsengel Michiel described as a fluit. The Aartsengel Michiel is number 90 in Vreugdenhil's list. Vreugdenhil had a note that the Aartsengel Michiel's guns were "small", but that was not true in 1652, at least according to the document that Jan Glete sent me from the Wrangel Collection in the Swedish archives. This is what that document has:
The ship, the Engel Michiel

Length from stem to sternpost:   142ft
Beam:                             32-1/2ft
Hold:                             14-1/2ft
Height between decks:              7ft

40 guns:
 4 iron gotelingen of 18lbs
16 iron gotelingen of 12lbs
16 iron gotelingen of  8lbs
 4 iron gotelingen of  4lbs

De huyr van 't schip        3100
de gagie van 't 120 coppen  1490
de matroosen van 120 coppen 1271
Extraordinaris                60
huyr van 20 stucken          400
I do not understand the reference to 120 men twice, as I have understood the presence of the first sort of reference to mean that this was the cost of hiring the crew. The second is a reference to 120 sailors.

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