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Monday 5 January 2015

Dutch bomb Geweld 1695-September 1719

Of the admiralty Amsterdam, bomb (galliot), built by Hendrik Cardinaal at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1695, sold for ƒ 265 and broken up at the admiralty yard at Amsterdam in September 1719, dimensions (Amsterdam foot) 90 x 24 x 10½, an armament of 8-4pd guns and 2 mortars and a crew numbering 23-26 men. In 1702 part of Dutch-British fleet, commanding officer Matthijs Gillisse