PETER EN PAUL
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 8:22 pm
This stamp of North Korea issued in 1984 shows Tsar Peter I of Russia on board the yacht ( he is the man standing with the red jacket near the mast) when he inspected the frigate of the VOC PETER EN PAUL on it IJ in front of Amsterdam. The PETER EN PAUL is the large vessel in the middle of the painting, while the yacht is sailing towards the PETER en PAUL right under.
The stamp is designed after the painting made by Abram Storck.
Tsar Peter the Great (1672-1725) visited the Netherlands accompanied by an entourage of over 200 people.
He was very interested in the Dutch shipbuilding and after working for some time at Zaandam one of the mean ship-buildings sites, he moved to Amsterdam where he commenced working on the VOC yard on 30 August 1697 under the direction of the master shipbuilder Gerrit Claeszoon Pool.
Special for the Tsar a new East India vessel was built the PETER EN PAUL. On the yard Tsar Peter was called “timmerman Peter” (carpenter Peter) or “Pieterbaas” (master Peter).
He ignored people who named him “His Majesty”.
Tsar Peter spent more as four months working on the ship, the first three weeks were spent to collect and sort out the wood and the processing of other material needed to build the ship.
To teach the Tsar how to build a ship they put all the parts conveniently arranged next to each other.
Subsequently each part was put in place during the building of the ship.
15 January 1698 Tsar Peter the Great I got a certificate from the Master shipbuilder Pool which stated that Peter was a skilled carpenter, who had proven that he be able to build ships and to make ship designs.
The PETER EN PAUL was built in 1697 for the Chamber of Amsterdam of the VOC on their own yard at Oostenburg in Amsterdam.
She was named after the Patron Saints of St Pietersburg Peter and Paul.
Tonnage 278 ton (bm), dim. 100 x 27.8 x 10ft.
Type frigate.
Crew 75 – 100 persons.
I give below the voyages to the Dutch East Indies given by the VOC website, the periods not mentioned, maybe used in home waters for sort voyages or in the Dutch East Indies
24 October 1698 she sailed from the road of Texel, North Netherland under command of skipper Klaas Dekker via the Cape of Good Hoop to Batavia where she arrived on 19 June 1700.
24 July 1700 she sailed from Batavia via Punto des Pedras to the Coromandel Coast, India.
1700 She left the Coromandel Coast and via Malacca sailed to Batavia.
17 February 1701 she sailed from Batavia via Cape of Good Hope were she stayed from 12 May till 24 May 1701 to Rammekens, Vlissingen (Flushing) where she arrived on 10 September 1701 still under command of skipper Dekker.
02 November 1706 she sailed from Texel under skipper Hendrik Matthijsz. and via Cape of Good Hope she arrived on 20 May 1707 in Batavia, she had only one passenger a stowaway that voyage, where he boarded the ship is not known.
30 November 1717 was she laid up in Batavia, fate unknown, most probably scrapped and the wood used as firewood.
North Korea 1984 10ch sg?, scott? (The scan of the stamp I got from Mr. Sitnikov Gennadiy , with thanks.)
Source: Various web-sites and the http://www.vocsite.nl
The stamp is designed after the painting made by Abram Storck.
Tsar Peter the Great (1672-1725) visited the Netherlands accompanied by an entourage of over 200 people.
He was very interested in the Dutch shipbuilding and after working for some time at Zaandam one of the mean ship-buildings sites, he moved to Amsterdam where he commenced working on the VOC yard on 30 August 1697 under the direction of the master shipbuilder Gerrit Claeszoon Pool.
Special for the Tsar a new East India vessel was built the PETER EN PAUL. On the yard Tsar Peter was called “timmerman Peter” (carpenter Peter) or “Pieterbaas” (master Peter).
He ignored people who named him “His Majesty”.
Tsar Peter spent more as four months working on the ship, the first three weeks were spent to collect and sort out the wood and the processing of other material needed to build the ship.
To teach the Tsar how to build a ship they put all the parts conveniently arranged next to each other.
Subsequently each part was put in place during the building of the ship.
15 January 1698 Tsar Peter the Great I got a certificate from the Master shipbuilder Pool which stated that Peter was a skilled carpenter, who had proven that he be able to build ships and to make ship designs.
The PETER EN PAUL was built in 1697 for the Chamber of Amsterdam of the VOC on their own yard at Oostenburg in Amsterdam.
She was named after the Patron Saints of St Pietersburg Peter and Paul.
Tonnage 278 ton (bm), dim. 100 x 27.8 x 10ft.
Type frigate.
Crew 75 – 100 persons.
I give below the voyages to the Dutch East Indies given by the VOC website, the periods not mentioned, maybe used in home waters for sort voyages or in the Dutch East Indies
24 October 1698 she sailed from the road of Texel, North Netherland under command of skipper Klaas Dekker via the Cape of Good Hoop to Batavia where she arrived on 19 June 1700.
24 July 1700 she sailed from Batavia via Punto des Pedras to the Coromandel Coast, India.
1700 She left the Coromandel Coast and via Malacca sailed to Batavia.
17 February 1701 she sailed from Batavia via Cape of Good Hope were she stayed from 12 May till 24 May 1701 to Rammekens, Vlissingen (Flushing) where she arrived on 10 September 1701 still under command of skipper Dekker.
02 November 1706 she sailed from Texel under skipper Hendrik Matthijsz. and via Cape of Good Hope she arrived on 20 May 1707 in Batavia, she had only one passenger a stowaway that voyage, where he boarded the ship is not known.
30 November 1717 was she laid up in Batavia, fate unknown, most probably scrapped and the wood used as firewood.
North Korea 1984 10ch sg?, scott? (The scan of the stamp I got from Mr. Sitnikov Gennadiy , with thanks.)
Source: Various web-sites and the http://www.vocsite.nl