This is an attempt to understand the March 1653 list published by J. C. de Jonge, in the appendix to Volume I of Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Zeewezen. We must assume that this list was compiled after the Battle of Portland. The reason that we might believe this is because at the time this list was compiled, 8 Directors' ships had been sunk or captured. We might be sceptical of de Jonge's list, but there is no other comprehensive listing, so the list needs to be examined. The main problem is that there doesn't seem to be "room" in the list for all the ships we know about.
Admiralty of the Maas (Rotterdam)
|
State's ship |
Hired ship |
Ship Name |
Guns |
Sailors |
Soldiers |
|
|
x |
|
Brederode |
54 |
200 |
50 |
Lt. Adm. Tromp |
|
x |
|
Gelderland |
40 |
110 |
30 |
Michiel Franszoon van den Bergh |
|
x |
|
Prinses Louise |
36 |
124 |
46 |
Abel Roelants |
|
x |
|
Dolphijn |
32 |
95 |
30 |
Paulus van den Kerckhoff |
|
x |
|
Gorcum |
30 |
95 |
30 |
Willem Adriaanszoon Warmont |
|
x |
|
Rotterdam |
30 |
80 |
20 |
Jan Aertszoon Verhaeff |
|
x |
|
Gulden Beer |
24 |
80 |
20 |
Jan de Haes |
|
x |
|
Utrecht |
22 |
80 |
20 |
Leendert Haexwant |
|
x |
|
Overijssel |
22 |
80 |
20 |
Dirck Vijch |
|
x |
|
Brander |
|
14 |
|
|
|
x |
|
Brander |
|
14 |
|
|
|
x |
|
Adviesjacht |
6 |
15 |
|
|
|
|
x |
Hollandia |
26 |
80 |
20 |
Ernest Adriaanszoon de Bertrij |
|
|
x |
Roskam |
26 |
80 |
20 |
Corstiaen Eldertszoon |
|
|
x |
Maria |
26 |
80 |
20 |
(Quirijn van den Kerckhoff killed at Portland) |
Rotterdam Admiralty Losses to Date
|
State's ship |
Hired ship |
Ship Name |
Guns |
Sailors |
Soldiers |
Captain |
Where Lost |
|
x |
|
Prinses Roijaal Marie |
36 |
|
|
|
Taken in an English port on the outbreak of the war |
|
x |
|
Wapen van Holland |
26 |
|
|
Hendrick de Munnich |
|
|
x |
|
|
26 |
|
|
|
|
|
x |
|
Gelderland |
30 |
131 |
|
Dirck Juynbol |
Burnt at the Battle of Dungeness |
|
x |
|
|
26 |
|
|
|
|
|
x |
|
Nijmegen |
26 |
|
|
Paulus van den Kerckhoff |
Sunk while returning from Brazil in June 1652 |
