Adm Ship Date Guns Sailors Soldiers Length Beam Hold Ht bet decks R Eendracht 1653 72 240 75 152ft 38ft 15ft-3in 7ft-9in R Rotterdam 1639 34 91 20 115ft-5in 27ft-3in 10ft-10in 6ft R Wapen van Dordrecht 1655 42 130 30 127ft-7in 32ft-5in 13ft-3in 7ft-4in A Landman 1653 40 136 130ft 32ft 13-1/2ft 7ft A Zon 1640 40 115 24 130ft 31-1/2ft 12ft 7ft A Westfriesland 1648 28 100 118ft 28ft 10-1/2ft 6-1/2ft N Jozua 1653 50 150 136ft 34ft 14ft 7-1/2ft
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Sunday, August 13, 2006
It turns out that I know the height between decks for more ships than I knew
I had only recently become interested in recording the height between decks for Dutch ships. It turns out that a document provided me by Jan Glete in September 2004 written by Ron van Maanen, has that information for ships involved in operations in 1658. Here are some examples. Note that the actual measurement for the Eendracht's length was 152ft, despite being intended to be 150ft long:
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