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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:
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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