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Sunday, September 10, 2006

The lists from the Witte de With archives from Sweden have overturned a lot that I had thought to be true

There are numerous examples of where I was mistaken or the published sources were mistaken about ships. Especially, Witte de With's journals from 1652 to 1658, archive E8812, have shown that often, published sources were mistaken and that estimates I had made were wrong. Some examples of the real information:
Captain                 Adm    Ship       Guns Crew Notes
Joost Bulter            F      Kameel      42       (not the Groningen Directors)
Pieter de Bitter        A-VOC  Mercurius   36  110  (not 40 guns and a crew of 200)
Frederick Stellingwerf  F      Zevenwolden 34  133  (not 38 guns and a crew of 135)
Pieter Gorcum           Z      ?           24   90  (not 17 guns and a crew of 60)

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