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History

The Groene Wijf was a ship in the service of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) and it is mentioned several times in the 17th-century standard work on the WIC, Historie ofte Iaerlijck Verhael by J. de Laet. The last reference to the ship is in a list of ships that arrived in Recife in 1639. It is not clear what became of the ship after that.

Description

Owner: WIC chamber Noorderkwartier
Tonnage: 150 last
Crew: 43
Armament: 2 bronze cannon, 14 cast iron cannon

Print of the side view of a sailing ship, with clouds in the sky.
Rijksmuseum
The Dubbele Arend , a WIC ship, part of an etching by Reinier Nooms, ca. 1650.

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