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Het Wapen van Veere was a fluyt ship in the service of the VOC.

The return fleet that departed from Batavia on February 4, 1673, was attacked off Saint Helena in May 1673 by an English naval squadron.

Abraham Huibrechtsen, the commander of the return fleet, was the skipper of Het Wapen van Veere.

Het Wapen van Veere, De Alphen, and fluyt Europa were captured off Saint Helena and taken to England. For the full story regarding the English action, see De Alphen.

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