Adm Ship Captain A-Dir Blauwen Arent Dirck Pater A-Dir Fortuijn Frederick de Coninck En-Dir Vergulde Sonne Jacob Claesz Duijm Ho-Dir Sampson Jacob Pietersz Houck Ed-Dir Vergulde Maen Jan Fredericksz Houckboot Ha-Dir St. Vincent Andries Douwesz (Pascaert) Ha-Dir Vergulde Pelicaen Aries Heeres CleijntjeI do not have the Nationaal Archief reference, but that is where the document is from.
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
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Directors' ships in September 1652
I continue to be interested in this one document from September 1652 that lists captains and ship names of ship hired by Directors of seaports. This list has a particular spelling of names that confirms some of those in published sources, such as Hendrick de Raedt's pamphlet, and which I have reproduced for both ship names and captains:
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