Enkhuizen, like Hoorn and Amsterdam, was one of the harbour-towns of the VOC, from where overseas trade with the East Indies was conducted. It received city rights in 1356. A historic city and municipality in the Netherlands. Located in the region of West Friesland in the province of North Holland, ...

The stamp depicts a flounder barge. The term "scholschuit" (school barge) is not often used in Dutch, but is likely a corruption of the word "schuit" or the name of a specific type of vessel. "Schuit" is a general term for a simple vessel, often used for transporting go...

The city of Vlaardingen is known primarily as a herring town. The history of Vlaardingen as a town dates back to the 8th century. Vlaardingen likely received its town charter before 1273, as Count Floris V granted town charters in 1273, indicating that they were an expansion of previously granted ch...

A herring buss (Dutch: Haringbuis) was a type of seagoing fishing vessel, mostly used by Dutch and Flemish herring fishermen in the 15th through early 19th centuries. The buss ship was already known around the time of the Crusades in the Mediterranean as a cargo vessel (called buzza, bucia or bucius...

«Jаger» (Netherlands): Vessel assigned to a herring fleet cited from at least the late 16th century. Principal duty was to collect the early catches and transport them quickly to market. Outbound, took supplies of salt and casks and might also peddle provisions, clothing. ropes and anchors (often st...

Fleet fishing was a passive form of sea fishing, primarily for herring. It involved the use of standing gear or standing nets. A series of such interconnected herring nets formed a fleet. From the fishing vessel—earlier the bomschuit (boat) and the buis (pipe), later the lugger and the sloop —the sk...

A tjalk-like fishing vessel, sometimes rigged as a barquentine. So called because it fished with hook gear. Later also used as a merchant ship. See also "Eenmasthoeker" (One-mast hooker), "Boston Irish hooker," and "Galway hooker." For more information on hooker, see vi...

A galliot was a type of Dutch or German merchant ship of 20 to 400 tons (bm), similar to a ketch, with a rounded fore and aft like a fluyt. Galiots had nearly flat bottoms to sail in shallow waters. These ships were especially favoured for coastal navigation in the North and Baltic seas. To avoid ex...

The smak is an old ship type from the 18th and early 19th centuries , originally from the Netherlands . The smak was a light vessel for coastal navigation. Most smaks could carry around 60 tons of cargo, but the largest examples could carry up to 200 tons. The hull was rounded fore and aft, and the ...

A koff is a historical type of sailing vessel that was used for coastal shipping off Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany in the 18th and 19th centuries. A typical koff had one and a half masts with a gaff rigged main sail and spanker and one or two square sails in the main top. The hull was plump ...

A pink was a fishing and trading vessel from the 15th to 19th centuries. In the Baltic Sea and Atlantic Ocean, a pink (from the Dutch "pincke") was the name for any small vessel with a narrow stern. In the Atlantic Ocean, the word "pink" was used to describe any small vessel with...

Shortsea is the modern equivalent of coastal shipping. The old name was inspired by a geographical factor: the ships sailed from the Netherlands "along the coast" to Denmark , Spain , or Portugal. Shortsea is also called "short sea shipping," although this term should not be take...

A hooker is a round vessel of 17th-century Dutch origin. Fishing vessels built not as hookers, but for catching fish with nets, are also called «hookers». А vessel used for fishing with hook-and-head gear, a fairly flat-bottomed fishing and transport vessel, broad at the bow and stern, usually with ...

As early as the 17th century there was mention of Icelandic voyagers. With sailing ships, the voyage lasted six months, from spring to late summer. The last Belgian Iceland voyager to earn a living with the classic Iceland voyage from northern France on sailing ships was Theophiel Decroo in 1934. Th...

Zwartewaal is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland, The Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality of Voorne aan Zee and lies about 5 km south of Maassluis. The village was first mentioned in the middle of the 13th century as "ten Zwarten Wale", and means "black (water)...