I. WAR VESSELS.
II. MERCHANTMEN.
A) For over seas trade;
B) For coasting trade and tidal streams.
III. FERRIES.
IV. BOATS FOR SUNDRY USES AND NOT BELONGING TO THE PRECEDING GROUPS.
V. BOATS FREQUENTING THE UPPER PARTS OF RIVERS (BOVENLANDERS).
A) For the Rhine;
B) For the Meuse;
C) For the Upper Rhine and the basin included between the Rhine and the Meuse.
VI. FISHING VESSELS.
A) For deep sea fishing;
B) For the coasting and river fisheries.
I.
WAR VESSELS.
In the matter of the evolution of the war ship, properly so-called, the reader needs merely to be referred to the preceding chapters.
Before about 1675, there were, as a first war ship proper: the Pinasschip (Pinace) and later the Spiegelschip (a square stern ship). The square sterned Spiegel disappeared and then round sterns were again taken up, whence resulted the war ship called Schip van oorlog. At the beginning, this class of vessels was made up exclusively of ships with two decks. At the end of the XVIIth century, however, a few types with three decks were built in the Netherlands.
Use was often made of the “Fluitschip” (flute or transport), of ships of the East India Company (“Oost-Indische Compagnie schip”), of “yachts” (“Jachten”) and of various sorts of vessels of less importance, as auxiliary war ships, and of tenders (“Boeier”), galliots (“Galjoot”), galeas (“Galeas”), “Bommen”, kuffs (“Koffs”) and smacks (“Smaks”) as coast defence vessels.