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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

The Beurs van Amsterdam

Ron van Maanen has the details about the ship Beurs van Amsterdam, which fought in the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665. I have supplemented that with information from Brandt and Frank Fox's book, A Distant Storm. The Beurs was apparently a VOC ship that had been built in 1654. This was another ship where the number of guns was increased by carrying many of the smallest guns, which seems to have not been worthwhile. These are the details:
The ship Beurs van Amsterdam, Capt. Cornelis Muts (in June and August 1665)

Length from stem to sternpost:  130ft
Beam:                            31-1/2ft
Hold:                            12-3/4ft
Height over the hold:             7ft

52 guns:
 4-18pdr
20-12pdr
10-3pdr

Crew: 190 sailors and 45 soldiers in August 1665
Sources:
  1. Gerard Brandt, Het Leven en Bedrijif van den Heere Michiel de Ruiter, 1687
  2. Frank Fox, A Distant Storm: the Four Days' Battle of 1666, 1996
  3. Ron van Maanen, unpublished manuscript "Dutch Warships 1600-1800", undated but circa 1992

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