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The aim of this study is to shed more light on the provenance of the captains sailing from the Baltic to Amsterdam in the eighteenth century. Where were those shipmasters domiciled? How did the pattern of provenance develop over time? Were captains from certain regions specialized in the sailing to certain ports? Was there a relationship between the domicile of the shipmaster and the cargo-carrying capacity of his vessel?
This paper is based upon a seminar in Economic and Modern History given by the authors at the University of Leyden in 1980. The following students participated in the seminar: A.P. de Bree, G. de Bruin, R.C. van Eyck, J. van Dorp, A. Goossens, T. Knoester, H.M.M. Koek, P.M. van der Padt, B.J. van Schie, A.M. Schönwetter, D. Vergunst, A.C.J. Vermeulen, M. A. Wapenaar, J.A.M. van der Zeeuw. The diagrams were drawn by Martin van Wouw of Roelofarendsveen.
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We assume that the captains with an unknown domicile were distributed over the Republic and the Baltic in the same proportions before and after 1770.
At most 12 per cent of the registrations show the same region for ship and captain.
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Lindblad, J.T., De Buck, P. (1983). Shipmasters in the Shipping between Amsterdam and the Baltic 1722–1780. In: Wieringa, W.J. (eds) The Interactions of Amsterdam and Antwerp with the Baltic region, 1400–1800. Werken. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-5952-6_14
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