Crommesteven

The cromster was a type of small warship used by the Dutch Republic during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 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. It played a part vis-à-vis the shore, in the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588.