Crommesteven
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The Crommesteven or cromsteven, often as crompster, cromster or crumster was a type of small warship used by the Dutch Republic and British fleets during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.[1] It was designed for work inshore on the shoal Netherlands coast and was a ketch, spritsail rigged on the main, and lateen on the small mizzen. As a class of vessel, it was represented in England by the hoy.
For its size, it was heavily armed and capable of influencing events ashore, in which respect it played a part in the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588.
Sources
- ^ L. E. Harris: The Two Netherlanders Humphtey Bradlay and Cornelis Drebbel. Brill Archive, p.96
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