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Saturday, December 02, 2006

A glaring hole: Abraham van der Hulst's ship up to August 1652

Given how much we have learned, the one really glaring hole in our knowledge is not knowing which ship Abraham van der Hulst commanded in 1652, up to August. The available lists, which may all be based on the same source, show that he commanded a 26 gun ship with a crew of 100 men. The ship appears to have been a regular warship owned by the Admiralty of Amsterdam. We know that by September, Abraham van der Hulst commanded the 40 gun ship Groningen and commanded it until March or April 1653, when he took command of the big 44 gun ship Vrijheid. Given that the rest of Hendrick de Raedt's list seems accurate, I have difficulty in believing that the 26 guns and crew of 100 men is an error. Sources:
  1. C. T. Atkinson, Ed., The First Dutch War, Vol.IV, 1910
  2. Pieter Casteleyn, Hollandsche Mercurius, 1652
  3. Dr. S.R. Gardiner, Ed., The First Dutch War, Vol.I, 1898
  4. Hendrik de Raedt, Lyste van de schepen van Oorloge onder het beleyt Admirael Marten Harpersz. Tromp, 1652
  5. Witte de With, journals from 1652 to 1658, Archive E8812 from the Riksarkivet, Stockholm

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