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)
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 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:
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