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Saturday, September 16, 2006

Some captains of Amsterdam Directors' ships

From the journals of Witte de With, I now know the names of two new captains. The guns and crew are as of 11 September 1653:
Adm    Ship                 Guns Crew Captain         Length Beam Hold  Height
A-Dir  Hercules             27   104  Capt. Veeneman  120    28.5 13    7
A-Dir  Keurvorst van Keulen 32   124  Sijmon Dootjes  131    30   13.25 7
Sources:
  1. James C. Bender, unpublished manuscript "Directors Ship Information", 2004
  2. Witte de With, journals from 1652 to 1658, Archive E8812 from the Riksarkivet, Stockholm

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