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Tuesday 28 July 2015

Dutch 3rd charter Friesland 1683-1690

Of the admiralty Amsterdam, built by S.J. Lis at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1683, captured and burnt by French in 1690, dimensions (Amsterdam foot) 145 (prow) x 38 x 14½, an armament of 62-68 guns and a crew numbering 285-350 men. Commanded in 1688 by captain Louis, graaf van Nassau, part of the squadron of rear admiral G. van der Dussen in the fleet which brought king-stadtholder William III to England, in 1690 in squadron captain Philips van der Goes, heavily damaged by battle at Besevier against the French, captured and burnt by the French.