Sunday, April 16, 2006

Larger Noorderkwartier ships from 1625 to the 1640's

The Admiralty of the Noorderkwartier built some larger ships from 1625 up until the 1640's:
Eenhoorn, 30 guns   Built 1625 
   (the "Patriarch" of the Dutch fleet)

200 lasts

Length: 125ft
Beam:    29ft
Hold:    12ft (estimated)

Guns:
7-iron 12pdr
13-iron 10pdr
4-iron 8pdr
2-iron 6pdr
2-iron 4pdr
2-iron 3pdr

Eendracht, 41 guns   Built 1639

220 lasts (estimated)

Length: 130ft
Beam:    32ft
Hold:    12ft

Guns:
4-brass 24pdr
2-brass 18pdr
4-brass 12pdr
2-brass  9pdr
4-brass  6pdr
2-brass  4pdr
8-iron  18pdr
8-iron  12pdr
7-iron   8pdr


Prinses Roijael, 26 guns   Built 1641

Length: 125ft
Beam:    30ft
Hold:    11.5ft

Guns:
2-brass 24pdr
2-brass 18pdr
4-brass  6pdr
4-iron  12pdr
12-iron  8pdr


Jonge Prins, 28 guns   Built 1634

Length: 120ft
Beam:    28ft
Hold:    11.5ft

Guns:
2-brass 24pdr
2-brass 12pdr
8-iron  12pdr
8-iron   8pdr
2-iron   5pdr
4-iron   4pdr
2-iron   2pdr


Monnikendam, 38 guns  Built 1644
(Pieter Florissen's flagship in
the First Anglo-Dutch War)

Length: 120ft
Beam:    28.5ft
Hold:    11ft

Guns:
2-brass 12pdr
6-brass  6pdr
8-iron  18pdr
8-iron  12pdr
2-iron  10pdr
4-iron   6pdr
6-iron   4pdr
2-iron   3pdr

Wapen van Enkhuizen, 34 guns   Built 1645

Length: 120ft
Beam:    29ft
Hold:    11.75ft

Guns:
2-brass 18pdr
6-brass  6pdr
10-iron 12pdr
9-iron   8pdr
5-iron   5pdr
2-iron   3pdr
All this data is from the Staet van Oorlog te Water for the year 1654 (the date is July 1654).

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