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History

The Koning van Zweden 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 is that the ship arrived in Pernambuco from Hoorn in the Netherlands in 1634. It is not clear what became of the ship after that.

Painting in black and white of ships arriving at a beach.
Teylers Museum
View of Recife, by Frans Post, ca. 1636.

Description

Yard: Amsterdam
Owner: WIC chamber Amsterdam
Tonnage: 140 last
Crew: 24 sailors, 52 soldiers (on other moments 24 sailors and 51 soldiers and 19 sailors)
Armament: 19 iron cannon (on other moments 11 and 15)

References

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