''Peter von Danzig'' was a 15th-century ship of the
Hanseatic League. The three-masted ship was the first large vessel in the
Baltic Sea
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with
carvel planking.
Career
''Peter von Danzig'' was built at the
French
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west coast and originally named ''Pierre de la Rochelle'' or ''Peter van Rosseel''. The ship arrived in
Danzig in 1462, carrying
sea salt
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from the Atlantic. While she anchored in roadstead, she was damaged by lightning.
The ship lay inactive for a while in Danzig harbour, but was eventually seized and changed over to a warship in 1469 after the Hanse had declared
war on England.
Between August 1471 and 1473 ''Peter von Danzig'' operated in the
North Sea
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under captain
Paul Beneke Paul Beneke, also Paul Benecke, (early 1400s (decade) – c. 1480) was a German town councillor of Danzig and a privateer.
Life
During the Anglo-Hanseatic War, Beneke overpowered an English fleet at Zween in 1468. When Beneke was commissioned by L ...
, hunting English merchantmen with a
letter of marque and securing Hanse convoys. After the
Treaty of Utrecht (1474)
The Treaty of Utrecht was signed in 1474 after the Anglo-Hanseatic War between England and the Hanseatic League.
This naval war had begun in 1470 using the naval strategy of commerce raiding in the North Sea and the English Channel; one of th ...
, the ship undertook several trade trips abroad, before she appears to have been decommissioned in the late 1470s.
[Jochen Brennecke: ''Geschichte der Schiffahrt'', Künzelsau 1986 (2nd ed.) , p. 62]
See also
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List of ships of the Hanseatic League
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Baochuan
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Flor de la Mar
''Flor do Mar'' or ''Flor de la Mar'' (Flower of the Sea), spelled ''Frol de la Mar'' in all Portuguese chronicles of the 16th century, was a Portuguese ''nau'' (carrack) of 400 tons, which over nine years participated in decisive events in the ...
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Jong (ship)
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References
Sources
* Jochen Brennecke: ''Geschichte der Schiffahrt'', Künzelsau 1986 (2nd ed.) , p. 62
* Propyläen Technikgeschichte (Ed. Wolfgang König): Karl-Heinz Ludwig, Volker Schmidtchen: ''Metalle und Macht. 1000 bis 1600.'' Berlin, Frankfurt/Main 1992 (2nd ed.)
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External links
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