HOUTPORT
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 7:27 pm
The stamp gives HOUTPORT 1700, and the image after the stamp was designed I found in the book; Ship 5,000 years of Maritime Adventure by Brian Lavery on page 154.
Not sure of a ship under that name was sailing under Dutch flag in 1700.
It is given that she had a length of 30.5 metres, with a tonnage of 600 tons.
She is a flute the classic merchant ship of the Dutch merchant marine around that time. The design was so successful that it was widely copied in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Balkan countries.
She was very economical in operation, carrying the largest cargo with the smallest crew.
She was used world-wide but the ships sailing to the Mediterranean, West Indies and India were the largest and strongest.
The north sailing flute did not have a beakhead, the south going did have. So it looks that the HOUTPORT was sailing to the northern countries, and when you translate the name from Dutch to English it means timber port, it looks she was used in the timber trade.
Carried three masts, the two forward square rigged while the mizzen mast was lateen rigged.
Carvel built hull. With a deck that was much narrower than the hull below. The narrow upper deck was specially designed to evade Danish customs dues when passing the Danish sounds bound for the Baltic.
The type was used from the 16th century till the 19th century.
Crew 11 – 21.
Netherland Antilles 2010 250c sg?, scott?
Source: Aak to Zumbra, a Dictionary of the World’s Watercraft. Zeilvaart Lexicon, and the already mentioned book.
Not sure of a ship under that name was sailing under Dutch flag in 1700.
It is given that she had a length of 30.5 metres, with a tonnage of 600 tons.
She is a flute the classic merchant ship of the Dutch merchant marine around that time. The design was so successful that it was widely copied in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Balkan countries.
She was very economical in operation, carrying the largest cargo with the smallest crew.
She was used world-wide but the ships sailing to the Mediterranean, West Indies and India were the largest and strongest.
The north sailing flute did not have a beakhead, the south going did have. So it looks that the HOUTPORT was sailing to the northern countries, and when you translate the name from Dutch to English it means timber port, it looks she was used in the timber trade.
Carried three masts, the two forward square rigged while the mizzen mast was lateen rigged.
Carvel built hull. With a deck that was much narrower than the hull below. The narrow upper deck was specially designed to evade Danish customs dues when passing the Danish sounds bound for the Baltic.
The type was used from the 16th century till the 19th century.
Crew 11 – 21.
Netherland Antilles 2010 250c sg?, scott?
Source: Aak to Zumbra, a Dictionary of the World’s Watercraft. Zeilvaart Lexicon, and the already mentioned book.