Also called Porto, São João, São João do Porto and São João Perola, built in 1642, run though the Dutch blockade of Ceylon in end March 1654, homeward bound battled she with the Dutch off Salcete in begin May and abandoned by her crew when she was hit by the Dutch fireship Zydeworm which was a former war yacht, measurement 700 tons, armament of 36 guns.
Sources
A. Marques Esparteira. Catalogo dos navios brigantinos (1640-1901). Lisboa, 1976.
Quirino da Fonseca. Os Portugueses no mar, vol 1, 1926
J.A. Ramos. The Portuguese Navy, The Belgian Shiplover 84.
G.D. Winius. The fatal history of Portuguese Ceylon.
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