Catarina hired by the Amsterdam Directors in January 1653 Captain: Jacob Jansz Coppe Length from stem to sternpost: 125ft Beam: 29-1/4ft (or 28-1/2ft) Hold: 12-1/2ft Height between decks: 7ft 28 guns: 12-12pdr 6-8pdr 8-6pdr 2-3pdr Crew: 110 men Catharina Hired by the Admiralty of Amsterdam on 4 June 1652 Captain: Dirck Bogaart Length from stem to sternpost: 116ft Beam: 25ft Hold: 11-1/2ft Height between decks: 6-1/2ft 24 guns: 6-8pdr 8-6pdr 4-4pdr 4-3pdr 2-brass bases, 3pdr Crew: 70 to 80 men
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Monday, August 14, 2006
Vreugdenhil was apparently wrong about the two Catarinas possibly being the same ship
In his list, published in 1938, Vreugdenhil speculated that numbers 100 and 230 in his list might be the same ship. Since we now have specifications for both ships, we can see that they were extremely likely to be different ships. Number 100 was the 24-gun ship assigned to the Fishery Protection Squadron, and was captured by the English on 22 July 1652. We have information about the Catarina (28 guns) (as the ship is called) from 30 January 1653 from the Nationaal Archief. The information about the Catharina (24 guns) is from the pages from the Wrangell Collection. The two ships, if you believe the sources, were quite different. The Amsterdam Directors' ship had the following characteristics:
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