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The Friesland was a second rank vessel with 80 guns built around 1663, part of the great fleet of the United Provinces of Holland, consisting of 1700 units. In 1672, sided by 77 vessels under De Ruyter’s command, on board of the admiral-ship Zeven Provincen, it took part in the battle of Solebay with the allied Anglo-French forces. The reconstruction has been carried out on the ground of a reliable Dutch documentation.


 


Top Plan is Frieslan


Bottom plan is HOLLANDISCHE-ZWEIDECKER VON 1660-1670 


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The Saint Louis, 1626

 

The Saint Louis, commissioned in 1626, was built in the Netherlands, together with some other vessels ordered by France, with the purpose of modernizing its dated fleet. The Saint Louis was armed with 60 cannons installed in two artillery decks. In the same fashion of other ships of her time, a large grating was installed to cover the entire extension of the waist deck, to provide protection against the elements of the rigging that could fall during combat. In the forecastle and quarterdeck the large gratings placed at deck level helped to dispel the smoke from the artillery decks. It is noticeable as well the absence of catheads in this early example of a ship of the line.

 

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Lovely ship to be sure, but mixing vessels from the mid-late 1600's with those from late 1700's and early 1800's (when style was more defined) is anachronistic.   A 17th century vessel would not have survived to see the day to fight Napoleonic era vessels, and would have been at a distinct disadvantage.

 

Just my opinion of course, but I don't think "World of Sail" is where this game should go.  Now, if enough vessels are created to cover these different eras (which may be the plan?) then certainly, we could have the persistent world evolve from these early ships (Galleons and Golden age of Piracy) through to the War of Independence and Napoleonic wars. 

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Vrijheid 1651

 

Portrait of the ‘Vrijheid’, viewed from the port beam with, on the broadside, twelve guns on the gun deck and upper deck and three on the quarterdeck. The work is inscribed ‘…schip van capt balcke/…de gevecht van de ruijter/... kaneel’ (Captain [Auke] Balk’s ship in de Ruyter’s fight in the Channel). Balk was not in de Ruyter’s squadron in the action in the mouth of the Channel on 16-26 August 1652, but was second to him in the ‘Vrijheid’ in the three-day action beginning off Portland on 18-28 February 1653, where he was killed. The hull drawing has been roughly cut out, laid on a larger piece of paper and the lower masts then added. It is an accurate representation of the ship, but after many corrections, which led to the cutting out of the hull and pasting on the second sheet. A heavy wash has been put on but with more definition added by rather hesitant brown pen-work.

 

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My recently arrived "Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail" would have dimensions for many of these 17th century ships.

 

 

Though I agree that it would be better to find 18th century ships, fits in better with the timeline, and generally speaking a 80-gun ship from 1660 is well inferior to an 80-gunner from 1760. That's just the way those things work. 

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There was a ship named Vrijheid  at the Battle of Kamperduin in 1797. That one was launched in 1787 and sits squarely in the period represented by Naval Action. Looking at the order of battle for Kamperduin you have a ready list of Dutch warships of different sizes from the Napoleonic period. What we are getting in the game is an East Indiaman - Amsterdam (1748), based on the replica at the Scheepvaart Museum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_ship_Vrijheid


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Camperdown
 

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The Friesland was a second rank vessel with 80 guns built around 1663, part of the great fleet of the United Provinces of Holland, consisting of 1700 units. In 1672, sided by 77 vessels under De Ruyter’s command, on board of the admiral-ship Zeven Provincen, it took part in the battle of Solebay with the allied Anglo-French forces. The reconstruction has been carried out on the ground of a reliable Dutch documentation.

 

 

Is this the same ship as the Hollandia, or is this of another build?

I don't know much about it, only that is also had 80 guns and that it was a two-decker built around 1665.

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Dutch 80th gun

And would this ship be suited for the dutch.

Friesland was a second rank vessel with 80 guns built around 1663, part of the great fleet of the United Provinces of Holland, consisting of 1700 units. In 1672, sided by 77 vessels under De Ruyter’s command, on board of the admiral-ship “Zeven Provincen”, it took part in the battle of Solebay with the allied Anglo-French forces. The reconstruction has been carried out on the ground of a reliable Dutch documentation.

(Not copy paste) :D

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I was searching through the Maritime Museum Rotterdam's digital collection and came across this ship.  It has nice plans, but I could not find it's name (It's unlikely that Vierde Charter Gemonteerd is it's name).

 

To see plans click Here

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