BOOTSCHIP
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:23 pm
Bootschip (boatship), merchant ship also used as a whaler. Known since the 17th and 18th century in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Scandinavia.
The type was somewhere between a galliot and a flute. They were built with a reasonably wide low transom and a short poop. A forecastle was usually not present,
The rigging consisted of a three-mast rig with lower and topsails, but in the 18th century they also rigged topgallant sails on both foremasts and a mizzen topsail on the mizzen mast.
Length up to 30m.
Een well known boatship is the HECTOR of 1723: https://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/view ... 9879#p9879
Source: Zeilvaart Lexicon by J van Beylen
Netherlands 2025 first class mail sg?, Scot?
The type was somewhere between a galliot and a flute. They were built with a reasonably wide low transom and a short poop. A forecastle was usually not present,
The rigging consisted of a three-mast rig with lower and topsails, but in the 18th century they also rigged topgallant sails on both foremasts and a mizzen topsail on the mizzen mast.
Length up to 30m.
Een well known boatship is the HECTOR of 1723: https://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/view ... 9879#p9879
Source: Zeilvaart Lexicon by J van Beylen
Netherlands 2025 first class mail sg?, Scot?