The Schiedam, more fully ye Groette Schedam van Horn (the ‘Great Schiedam of Horn’), was a ship of some 400 tons built at Hoorn in Holland and wrecked near Gunwalloe off the west coast of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall on 4 April 1684. She was a fluyt, called by the English a ‘flyboat’, a type of wide-bellied cargo vessel with minimal armament and a small crew. The wreck was discovered in the shallow cove of Jangye-ryn in 1971 …
Read More‘Prospect of Tangier from the East’ by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77), who was sent by King Charles II in 1668 to draw the town and its fortifications. The great ‘Mole’ can be seen under construction to the right, with workmen visible at the end, a gun battery facing seaward and various buildings. In early 1684 the Schiedam was tasked to bring back the ‘Molemen’ and their families as well as equipment and stores from the Mole (Wenceslaus Hollar Collection, Fisher Library, University of Toronto).