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A fluyt (archaic Dutch: fluijt "flute"; Dutch pronunciation: ⓘ) [1] is a Dutch type of sailing vessel originally designed by the shipwrights of Hoorn as a dedicated cargo vessel. [2] Originating in the Dutch Republic in the 16th century, the vessel was designed to facilitate transoceanic delivery with the maximum of space and crew efficiency.
Oude Zijpe, also written as Oude Zype, Oude Zijp and Oude Sype was an 18th-century fluyt of the Dutch East India Company. During the last part of her first return voyage from Batavia, she ran aground during a heavy storm on 22 September 1742 off Bloemendaal, 0.5 mile north of Zandvoort. The crew and most of the cargo was rescued.
The Dutch fluyt ship could be recognized as a similar design to a galleon due to its pear-shaped hull. [ 6 ] A common feature of European designs was the consideration for a large degree of armament as colonial powers had to defend from both aggressive rival European traders and pirates seeking to plunder goods.
t Wapen van Hoorn departed Texel for Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, on 27 December 1619, under the command of Roelof Pietersz. It arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 5 July 1620, and reached Batavia on 8 December 1620. It then returned to Texel, leaving Batavia on 7 January 1621, and arriving on 17 July 1621.
Hofwegen was an 18th-century Dutch fluyt. Built in 1731 in Rotterdam, the ship entered the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The ship is recorded as making several voyages the Dutch colony of Batavia in Indonesia. She made the majority of these voyages at the behest of the "Rotterdam Room", a collection of merchants from Rotterdam.
This is a list of Dutch (the United Provinces of the Netherlands) ships of the line, or sailing warships which formed the Dutch battlefleet.It covers ships built from about 1623 (there are few reliable records of individual earlier warships) until the creation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in March 1815, including the period of the French-controlled Batavian Republic, nominal Kingdom of ...
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Landskroon (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈlɑntskroːn]) was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) which traded with Japan in the mid-18th century. [ 1 ] References