Model Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
A so-called bovenlandse aak (=barge). Her armament consisted of 7 guns and her crew numbered 45 men. Bought by the Department of Amsterdam, Netherlands (decision 25 July no. 634) and commissioned on 6 August in the Wad Sea area and the Eems. Decommissioned on 5 June 1807 and broken up (decision 20 April no. 16).
Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling van modellen van het Departement van Marine reported that she was built at Amsterdam in 1799, armed with 1-12pd gun at the bow and 4-6p guns asides. He called her a flat-bottomed vessel with lee boards. Asmus (Admiralty Archives LXVII no. 17, National Archive, The Hague, Netherlands) called her a gunboat or galley, built in 1799 by R. Dorsman at the admiralty yard at Amsterdam with an armament of 7 guns and as dimsailensions 95 x 23 6/11 x 5 4/11 feet.
There is a second model of the Zeeduivel availabe in the Rijksmusem, made by Asmus himself. Description by this model reports that she was armed with 5-7 guns, a length of 91 feet being a flat-bottomed lugger, bought in 1799 by the navy department at Amsterdam and by Joachim Pieter Asmus converted into a gun galley.
