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Sunday, April 01, 2007

I assume that the six VOC ships on the page map to the six that served in 1653

We know that from May 1653, six VOC ships served with the fleet. Presumably, these map to the gun lists and dimensions in the one page I recently received:
Adm    Ship               Guns Crew Commander
A-VOC  Gereghtigheijt     34   112  Capt. Evert Swart (May 1653)
A-VOC  huijs van Nassouw  34   112  Capt. van Strijp (May 1653)
A-VOC  Mercurius          36   110  Capt. Pieter de Bitter (May 1653)
R-VOC  Nassau             32   124  Capt. Jan Arensz van der Werff (May 1653)
                         36   128  Capt. Jan Arensz van der Werff (Aug. 1653)
Ho-VOC Sinte Willeboort   27   120  Capt. Herick Jacobsz (Aug. 1653)
Mi-VOC Swarte Bul (Edam)  32   104  Capt. Willem Volckertsz (May 1653)
                         36   139  Capt. Willem Folckertsz (Aug. 1653)
                         35   125  Lt-Cdr. Abraham Arensz (Sept. 1653)

Sources:
  1. Witte de With, journals from 1652 to 1658, Archive E8812 from the Riksarkivet, Stockholm

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