Dimensions in Maas feet: 114ft x 27ft x 12ft 200 Rotterdam lasts Dimensions in Amsterdam feet: 124.36ft x 29.45ft x 13.09ft 230 lasts Dimensions using English measurements: Keel Length in English feet: 97ft Beam outside the planking: 28ft-6in Depth: 12ft-2.5in When captured in 1652, the Princess Maria carried: 2-24pdr, 4-18pdr, 4-12pdr, 22-8pdr, 2-6pdr guns
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Saturday, February 06, 2010
The Princess Maria (Dutch prize)
I just received my copy of Rif Winfield's new book. I noticed what he wrote about the Dutch prize, Princess Maria, that served in the First Anglo-Dutch War for the English. The Princess Maria had been built as the Rotterdam ship Princess Roijael Maria in 1643. I did some calculations about the ship: