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Monday, May 22, 2006

The Friesland States' ships in March 1653

I believe that we can safely say that we have a fairly good knowledge of the States' ships in the service of the Admiralty of Friesland in March 1653. I hope that this is not too bad of a duplication of what I might have already written. There were just four listed in the list in the appendix to Vol.I of Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Zeewezen:
Ship name       Guns Crew  Commander               Length Beam   Hold
Groningen       38   110   Hendrick Janszoon Camp  132ft  31ft   14.5ft
Zevenwolden     38   140   Frederick Stellingwerff
Breda           28   110   Adriaan Bruynsvelt      120ft  29ft
Omlandia        28   110                           122ft  26.5ft 13ft
One ship missing from the list of States' ships is the jacht Graaf Willem (12 guns), commanded by Jan Coenders. This was built for the Admiralty of Friesland in 1644 and her dimensions were 74ft x 18.5ft x 7ft. Sources:
  1. C. T. Atkinson, Ed., The First Dutch War, Vol. VI, 1930
  2. J. C. De Jonge, Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Zeewezen, Vol.I, 1858
  3. A. Vreugdenhil, Ships of the United Netherlands 1648-1702, 1938

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