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Friday, September 15, 2006

Dutch warships on 17 April 1653 and somewhat later (corrected)

There is a list of ships in The First Dutch War, Vol.IV, which we can better complete than at any time in the past (this was corrected for the Zwarte Bul):

Ships that sailed for the rendezvous at the Wielingen,
 after Witte de With had sailed:
Adm    Ship             Guns Crew  Captain
A      Bommel           34   110   Pieter van Braeckel
A      Zutphen          26   120   Hillebrandt Jeroenszoon
A      Westfriesland    28   110   Hendrick Huyskens
A-Dir  Catherina        28   110   Jacob Jansz Coppe
R-VOC  Wapen van Nassau 32   124   Jan Arensz van der Werff
N      Stad Medemblik   30   108   Pieter Schellinger

Ships that sailed on 23 April 1653

F      Postpaert        30   106   Isaac Codde
A-VOC  Gerechtigheid    34   105   Evert Swart
A-VOC  Mercurius        36   110   Pieter de Bitter
En-Dir Vergulde Zon     28   115   Jacob Claesz Duijm
Ha-Dir Sint Vincent     28   110   Ariaan Heeres Kleijntje

The following ships were lying in the Texel roads in late April 1653:

A      Vrede            44   192   Commandeur Gideon de Wildt
A      Overijssel       30   114   Jan van Kampen
A      Gouda            30   114   Jan Egbertsz Ooms
A      Gelderland       30   114   Cornelis van Velsen
A      Zeelandia        34   130   Nicolaes Marrevelt
A      Hollandsche Tuin 24    97   Lt-Commandeur Joris Block
Mi-VOC Zwarte Bul       36   139   Willem Folkertszoon
Ed-Dir Halve Maan       30   107   Hendrick Pieterszoon
A-Dir  Sint Matheeus    34*  125*  the ship formerly
                                    commanded by Cornelis Naeuoogh
A-Dir  Faam             28   130   Jacob Cornelisz Swart (apparently)

Ship recently arrived in the Texel in late April 1653:

A      Vrijheid               50   207   Abraham van der Hulst
A      Campen                 40   158   Willem van der Zaan
N      Casteel van Medemblick 28   106   Adriaan Houttuijn

Sources:
  1. C. T. Atkinson, Ed., The First Dutch War, Vol.IV, 1910
  2. James C. Bender, unpublished manuscript "Dutch Ships 1600-1700", 2005
  3. Witte de With, journals from 1652 to 1658, Archive E8812 from the Riksarkivet, Stockholm

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