Lt-Adm. Egbert Meüssen Cortenaer

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N CGS on Sat 24 May 2008, 03:11am. Flag this

? flag captain Egbert Bartholomeuszoon Kortenaer, [ was it the same]
N Pedro on Sun 25 May 2008, 08:10pm. Flag this

Egbert Bartholomeuszoon Kortenaer or Egbert Meussen Cortenaer (1604-13 June 1665)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egbert_Bartholomeusz_Kortenaer

The above information ties in with the Journal of Montagu, where the Groot Hollandia has 66 guns and 325 men.
N dirk on Tue 27 May 2008, 09:32pm. Flag this

More info on Kortenaer

Web page (in Dutch, but with some portraits):
http://www.deruyter.org/diversen_link_Egbert.kortenaer.html

His tomb, in the St Laurentius Church in Rotterdam:
http://www.laurenskerkrotterdam.nl/inhoud/gebouw_grafmonumenten.htm

Captain Kortenaer has streets named after him in several Dutch cities, i.a. Rotterdan, Leiden, etc…
http://www.xs4all.nl/~cepweb/rotterdam-city/kortenaerstraat-by-night.html