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Dutch ship Gouden Leeuw

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Name
  
Gouden Leeuw

Beam
  
40 ft (12 m)

Launched
  
1666

Fate
  
Broken up in 1686

Depth of hold
  
15 ft (4.6 m)

Length
  
50 m

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Notes
  
Participated in Battle of Texel

Class and type
  
80-82-gun ship of the line

The Gouden Leeuw (Dutch: Golden Lion) was a Dutch ship of the line armed with 80-82 cannon. The vessel was built for the Admiralty of Amsterdam in 1666 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Gouden Leeuw was for a time the largest Dutch warship. During the Third Anglo-Dutch War, the ship served as the flagship of Lieutenant Admiral Cornelis Tromp. She was Tromp's flagship at the Battle of Texel in 1673, with the Irishman Thomas Tobiasz as his flag captain. She was broken up in 1686.

The Gouden Leeuw was, in English feet, about 165 ft long by about 40 ft (12 m) wide by approximately 15 ft (4.6 m) deep, and was armed with 28 guns on the lower deck, 28 guns on the upper deck, and 26 guns on the forecastle, quarterdeck, and poop deck.

References

Dutch ship Gouden Leeuw Wikipedia