Thursday, September 28, 2006

Ron van Maanen says that the captured English ship Patrick was called Zwanenbug in Dutch service

Ron van Maanen says that the captured English ship Patrick, taken in 1667, served in the Third Anglo-Dutch War as the Zwanenburg, in the service of the Admiralty of Zeeland. The Zwanenburg measured 142 feet from stem to sternpost and carried somewhere between 42 and 60 guns. The crew was just 121 men. Ron says that there was a 1667 list that called the ship Swaenburgh (ex-Saint Patrick). Sources:
  1. Ron van Maanen, unpublished manuscript "Dutch Warships 1600-1800", undated but circa 1992