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WINTER OPERATIONS
Appendix 4. Amsterdam Winter Fleet contingent, 1665-1666:l
Guns
Notes
Served in winter fleet:
Hugo van Nieuwenhof
Middelburg
36
At Delfzijl 6 Dec; at Texel 23 Dec; left by 29 Dec
Cornelis Speck
Edam
34
At Wielings 21 Dec
Matthijs Corneliszoon
Damiaten
32
At Delfzijl 17 Dec; at Wielings 21 Dec
Balthasar van de Voorde
Zeelandia
38
Damaged by 6 Dec; left Texel by 29 Dec; at Veere
by 30 Dec
Jacob Paeuw
Zutphen
36
At Texel 22 Nov; at Veere by 30 Dec
Jan Gyselsz. van Lier
Vollenhoven
28
At Texel 22 Nov
Jacob Binckes
Schager Roos
38
At Texel (from Norway) by 23-24 Dec; left Texel by
29 Dec
Unable to reach Zeeland:
[Cornelis van?] Brakel22
Eenhoorn
32
At Texel by 23 Dec; crew mutinied there by 29 Dec
Adam van Brederode
Leyerdorp
26
Unable to reach sea due to ice; back at Amsterdam
by 26 Dec
Anske Fockes
At Medemblik 20 Dec; iced in there by 23 Dec
Cornelis de Bruin
Ster
36
At Vlie 16 Dec; at Medemblik by 29 Dec
Willem van Bergen
Popkensberg
24
At Texel by 19 Dec; at Medemblik by 29 Dec
Notes
1 Sources: NA, AA 1417. RAvA, 1 November 1664; ibid. RAvA, 9 December 1664; TNA,
SP 84/173, f. 162. Haagse Besognes to States General, 5 November 1664; Pieter
Simons, Johan de Witt en zijn tijd. Amsterdam, 1835, II, 225-227. For Amsterdam cap
tains, see TNA, SP 84/175, f. 12. Downing to Bennet, 7/17 March 1665; ibid, f. 156.
Amsterdam admiralty to States General, 2/12 March 1665. For other additions and
changes, see text.
2 Original command seniority of this force noted after relevant officers.
3 Not to be confused with Jacob Cornelissen Swart, another Amsterdam captain, com
manding Edam (34), then with De Ruyter's squadron in the Atlantic.
4 Goes (30) was not in service until 25 March 1665. No other ship was formally allocated
to the 18 ships' in her place.
5 In November 1664, the Friesland admiralty was ordered to provide 2 ships to the
Guinea force, but was unable to do so. No ships seem to have been formally allocated.
6 ZA, SvZ, 2481. RSG, 10 January 1665 (on Friesland admiralty, in-letter, [6] January
1665). See text.
7 Shaded ships are those already allocated to the winter fleet. Excludes inshore light craft.
Manning and armament given for February 1665. Figures for soldiers/marines also
include unpaid elite volunteers; figures for seamen include the captain/commander, offi
cers, and any special inshore pilots (if borne). The sole remaining major warship in
home waters, Goes (30), was not in service until 25 March 1665.
8 The Vice-Admiral's usual ship, but he was now flying his flag in Hof van Zeeland, in his
absence Vlissingen was commanded by her master, Claas Reinierssen.
9 After Banckert transferred back into Veere, no soldiers were embarked until 4 March
1665.
10 Sources: ZA, SvZ 3102.1, f. 343. List of British warships, 19 February/1 March 1665,
originally enclosed in ibid, f. 341. Cunaeus to [Griffier/De Huybert], 19 February/1
