Jacob van der Windt

In this Dutch name, the surname is van der Windt, not Windt.
Glass goblet Jacob van der Windt - Museum Vlaardingen

Jacob van der Windt (baptized September 15, 1745 – October 15, 1792), also spelled van der Wint, from Vlaardingen was the skipper on the herring buss "De Roode Roos", owned by ship owner Assendelft de Coningh (1747–1803).[1]

Because of the outbreak of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784) he sailed from Brielle[2] on December 29, 1780, to the fishing fleet of Vlaardingen en Maassluis consisting of respectively 82 and 63 vessels [3] at the Dogger Bank. Thanks to this warning journey, only a few ships were attacked by the English. Nearly the entire fleet returned safely.

Van der Windt returned to Vlaardingen on January 11, 1781.[4] He was honored with a silver commemorative medal[5] and a glass goblet.[6] On the front of both the medal and the jar is a representation of Van der Windt's ship.

The text on the glass goblet at Museum Vlaardingen reads: "1780 den 29 Dec van Vlaarding uitgezeilt om onse vloot van den oorlog kennis te geven op te ontbieden behoude binne gekomen den xi Jan 1781" (translated: "1780 the 29th of December of Vlaarding sailed out to inform our fleet of the war and to summon them, safely returned on the 11th of January 1781").

  1. ^ "Jacob van der Windt in the DBNG". Archived from the original on 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
  2. ^ Poelstra, Theo J. (1985). "STUURMAN JACOB VAN DER WINDT EN DE OORLOG VAN 1780" (PDF). Jaarboek Historische Vereniging Vlaardingen (in Dutch).{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. ^ "Delpher newspaper archive - Noordhollandsche courant". www.delpher.nl (in Dutch). 15 January 1781. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  4. ^ A report of the return to Vlaardingen is printed a few days later in: Noordhollandsche Courant, Januari 15, 1781, p. 1
  5. ^ Collection Museum Vlaardingen on maritiemdigitaal.nl: Commemorative medal for Jacob van der Wint (Windt) in 1781
  6. ^ "Museum Vlaardingen: Glass goblet to honor the warning of Jacob van der Windt in 1780/81". Archived from the original on 2014-05-26. Retrieved 2019-01-07.