Ship Captain Lieutenant Blauwen Arent Dirck Pater Hendrick Hendricksz Heij Gideon van Sardam Hector Bardesius Ulrich de Jager Valck Cornelis Jansz Brouwer Bartholomeus Rietbeeck Elias Jacob Sievertsz Spanheijm Frans Fransz Sluijter Nassouw Lambert Pieterszoon Dirck Jansz Somer Engel Gabriel Bastiaen Bardoel Cornelis Cornelisz Jol Vergulde Fortuijn Fredrick de Coninck Dirck Hendricksz Vogelsang
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
Uldrich de Jager and Dirck Jansz Soomer
So, which ships, exactly, did former luitenants Uldrich de Jager and Dirck Jans Soomer (or Somer) command? I have some information from early 1652 that shows that Ulrich (or Uldenich or Uldrich) Claesz de Jager was the luitenant of Hector Bardesius on the Amsterdam Directors' ship Gideon van Sardam. That some document shows that Dirck Jansz Soomer was luitenant of Lambert Pieterszoon's ship Nassouw (or Nassouw van den Burgh, later just called the Burgh). This document is really good, as luitenants that we later hear about include: