On the way to Porvoo
On 5th March 2022 the Ursula Essberger passed the wreck site of the Huis te Warmelo. The almost 100 metre long chemical and oil tanker...
Weijert Groen and De Boer family
There are descendants of several crew members of the frigate Huis te Warmelo. One of them is 78-year-old Frank de Boer from the Dutch village...
In memoriam Frans Visser
Frans Visser died at the age of 89 after a short illness. He was a descendant of Dirk Thomasz Meerder, one of the chief officers...
Westfriesland Award
On 4th September 2021 I received the Westfriesland Award 2021. This prize is awarded annually by the West Frisian Historical Society to an institution or...
An orphan from Friesland
Wobbe Benedictus was one of the 41 Frisian sailors on board the frigate Huis te Warmelo. In the payment register, he is recorded as coming...
Overview article 2016-2021
On 26th June last, the 88th Yearbook of the West Frisian Historical Society was presented. This Yearbook contains an extensive article about the frigate Huis...
Tijs Blom from Alkmaar
Blom is a common family name in the Netherlands. The name has the same meaning as bloem (flower). Two crew members of the frigate Huis...
Pieter Jorisz Groenebroek
Pieter Groenebroek was second lieutenant on the frigate Huis te Warmelo. He came from Medemblik. His name recently surfaced in a deed from an Amsterdam...
A ship’s boy from Alkmaar
The ship's boys on the Huis te Warmelo were at the very bottom of the ranks. They were young and employed on the warship for...
The skipper's house
On the Vooreiland in Medemblik, there are three houses with a stepped gable in a row. They were built in the seventeenth century and form...
Cook Gerrit Hendriksz Kes
Gerrit Hendriksz Kes served as a ship's cook at the Huis te Warmelo. His place on the ship was the galley, the common name for...
Jan Haanekraaij from Enkhuizen
Jan Jansz Haanekraaij was a sailor on the frigate Huis in Warmelo. According to the payment register of the ship, he came from Enkhuizen. His...
Our man in Russia
In 1715, Jacob de Bie was the diplomatic representative of the Netherlands in Russia. He lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, the city that was...
Auke Visser and the Lieveloo family
On the Internet there is a family tree of the Lieveloo family with the name Auke Dirksz Visser. He was assistant steward on the frigate...
Article in NRC
On 4th September 2020, the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad published an article on well-preserved shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea region. The reason is the discovery...
Sorrow of a seaman's wife
Dirk Thomasz Meerder, the first lieutenant of the frigate Huis te Warmelo, was married to Annetjen Karstens. We know little about Dirk's career, but presumably...