History
The Vlissingen was part of VOC fleet under command Adam Westerwolt that tried to conquer Portuguese Goa in India.
Scheeps Strijt tusschen de Hollantsche Scheepen ondert Commandemt van D Heer Adam Westerwolt geboortigh van Delft ende de Spaensche vloot [...] den 24 Januario anno 1638 voor Goa. Pen drawing (Dutch anonymus ca. 1640 Rijksmuseum, RP-T-1883-A-214)
On 4th of January 1638 a battle between the Spanish Portuguese fleet (6 galleons 17 frigates) and the Dutch fleet ended in a defeat of the Portuguese. That is the Dutch view. Goa was not conquered, the Dutch lost two ships. One of them was the Vlissingen that caught fire while entering a Portuguese galleon together with the 's Gravenhage.
The next year, 1639, the Dutch Admiral Cornelis Simonsz van der Veere would conduct a new raid on Goa's port.
Description
Built 1627
VOC chamber of Zeeland
Tonnage: 350, 175 last
Status
Maybe in situ.
References
- Atlas of mutual heritage.
- 1.04.02_7345_0377.
- Teensma, B. (2014).
Wij verklaren dat alles is gedaan wat menschen connen prakeseren tot nadeel van den vijandt.
Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis vol. 33.
pp 3-18. - Barlaeus (1672).
Naauwkeurige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel, der zelfder aangrenzende ryken, en het machtige eyland Ceylon.
pp 52-53.
Johannes Janssonius van Waasberge en Johannes van Someren.