The Hoop was a ship of the Dutch West India Company (WIC). It was part of the fleet of admiral Cornelis 'Peg Leg' Jol, and fought along in a naval battle against the Spanish Tierra Firma fleet under Carlos de Ibarra on the 30th of August 1638, near Organo on the west coast of Cuba.

Rijksmuseum

Yard: Middelburg

Crew: 60

Tonnage: 250 last

Armament: 4 bronze and 16 iron cannon and 8 stone pieces

Fate

It is not clear what happened to the ship. It was still operational 1639 according to the list of Johan Maurits, but not anymore in 1640.

Slave trade

According to Slavevoyages.org, the Hoop made a voyage with enslaved people in 1637 from the Bight of Biafra and the islands in the Gulf of Guinea. Of the 237 people taken on board, 229 survived the voyage. The enslaved people were sold in Mouyree.

• Laet, J. de (1644)
  Historie ofte Iaerlijck verhael...
• NA, Den Haag, OWIC, 1.05.01.01, 57.185
  Lijst van schepen en jachten te Brazilië. [1639]
• Slavevoyages.org
  Voyage ID 11291
• Wright, I. A. (1934)
  Nederlandsche zeevaarders op de eilanden in de Caraïbische zee en aan de kust van Columbia en Venezuela gedurende de jaren 1621-1648(9)..., II
  pp 45