Ship Portraits
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Here you see the ship “Zierikzee’ with in the rear the “Walcheren ‘ .
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![]() A starboard-portrait of the ‘Beurs van Amsterdam’, 52 guns, built 1654 as an East Indiaman, taken into States service 1665, returned to the Company 1666. On the tafferel is a picture of the Exchange at Amsterdam, a building with a tower on the right, built on a bridge over the Rokin. On the rail above is the arms of Amsterdam, supported by two dolphins. Two shields are on the counter; on the starboard side is the arms of Amsterdam with lion supporters, and on the port side the monogram of AOVC, representing the Amsterdam chamber of the East India Company. Inscribed across the upper transom is ‘…van Amsterdam. |
![]() The ‘Geloof’, viewed from the port bow , the courses furled and the yards a-cockbill, and the topsails stowed. Bowsprit and sprit top are also shown and there are a number of figures on deck. The ports on the broadside are depicted showing, thirteen on the gundeck, around eleven on the upper deck, and four on the quarterdeck. the ‘Geloof’ commanded by Pieter Salmonsz, 1665 . |











