The ship Engel Gabriel, Capt. Isaac Sweers Length from stem to sternpost: 136ft Beam: 29ft-6in Hold: (13-6in?) Height over the hold: 7ft 36 guns: 18-12pdr 2-8pdr 12-6pdr 4-4pdr Crew: (130 men)
This is an ongoing discussion about 17th Century naval wargaming (really, 1620-1720). Part of what is offered are scenarios for games: orders-of-battle, ship lists, battle descriptions, and scenarios for Age of Sail II-Privateers Bounty (a sailing warfare computer simulation/game), suitable scaled for that environment. Copyright (c) 2003-2004 James C. Bender
Sunday, September 03, 2006
An alternative set of data for the Engel Gabriel, Isaac Sweers' ship
One set of information from the papers collected by Dr. S. Hart from the Gemeentearchief Amsterdadm is about the Engel Gabriel. The inventory is signed by Isaac Sweers, so that is pretty definitive that it is about his ship. These are the details from that document. They differ from the dimensions in the document from the Wrangell Collection. I have filled in some of the missing information from the Wrangell Collection and from The First Dutch War, Vol.IV:
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