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Monday, September 11, 2006

Hendrick Adriaansz Glas

From the journals of Witte de With, I have found that Hendrick Adriaansz Glas served the Amsterdam Directors, and commanded the Amsterdam Directors' ship Burgh. There is a document that shows that the Burgh fought in the Three Days Battle (Portland), as the ship needed repairs following the battle. Captain Glas and the Burgh seem to have served through the rest of 1653. There is a document from the Nationaal Archief that gives the details of that ship, but Ron van Maanen's document also has them:
The ship, the Burgh, Capt. Hendrick Adriaansz Glas

Length from stem to sternpost:  130ft
Beam:                            30ft
Hold:                            12ft

34 guns (April 1653): 4-24pdr, 14-12pdr, 10-8pdr, 4-6pdr, 2-2pdr

Crew: 112 men

Sources:
  1. Ron van Maanen, unpublished manuscript "Dutch Warships 1600-1800", undated but circa 1992
  2. Witte de With, journals from 1652 to 1658, Archive E8812 from the Riksarkivet, Stockholm

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