Adm Ship Commander A Pelicaen kapitein Overcamp A Overijssel kapitein Jan van Campen A Goude Reael kapitein van Loenen Me-Dir Coninck Radbout kapitein Jan Rootjens N Eenhoorn kapitein Jan Jansz Heck N Lastdrager kapitein Gerrit Munt F Sara kapitein Hessel Fransz F Breda kapitein Bruijnsvelt F Graef Hendrick (kapitein Jan Reijndersz Wagenaer) F Waterhont (kapitein Oosteroon) A Sonne, FS (?) A Cleijne Hoop, FS
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Sunday, July 01, 2007
A document that has a subset of the ships from this list from June 1653
I have this list that is similar to that seen by an English spy and reproduced in Thurloe's State Paper's book. I looked again at a document that I received about the time that I left for the Netherlands, in early May, and I noticed immediately that the ships listed are included in the sparser document. On major difference, besides that this list is smaller, is that there are dates on this document. The surprising fact is that this list dates from before the Battle of the Gabbard (the Zeeslag bij Nieuwpoort). The dates are from around 7 June 1653. The list is of ships lying in the Texel roads at that date: