Fogel Grip ( Bird Griffin , Swedish: Fågel Grip ) was a Swedish sailing ship originally built in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. She was used on the first Swedish expedition in 1638 together with Kalmar Nyckel to establish the colony of New Sweden .
12-611: Little is known about the vessel. Fogel Grip was a full-rigged pinnace about 30 meters (98 ft) long. Originally built in the Netherlands in the early 17th century the ship was bought by the Swedish South Company in 1636 or 1637. The first expedition was prepared by Samuel Blommaert in secrecy in fear of the Dutch West India Company which at that time dominated the area. The commander
24-410: A "race-built" design. The description derived from their "raced" or razed fore-and aft-castles, which, combined with their greater length in relation to their beam, gave them a purposeful, sleek look. Their builders described them as having "the head of a cod and the tail of a mackerel". These ships were purposely designed and built to the new design, not razeed older galleons . In 1570 Hawkins began
36-419: A fashion akin to the later " brig "). Pinnaces were used as fast merchant vessels , pirate vessels and small warships . Not all were small vessels, some being nearer to larger ships in tonnage . This type saw widespread use in northern waters, as they had a shallow draught . In 2009 the wreck of an Elizabethan English pinnace with a set of twelve matched cannon was discovered, the first of its type for
48-462: A partnership with Richard Chapman to build or rebuild warships for the Queen's Navy Board at Deptford Dockyard . The prototype of these new style galleons was the 295-ton Foresight in 1570, built by Chapman. Her success was followed in 1573 by the 360-ton Dreadnought (built by Matthew Baker) and 350-ton Swiftsure (built by Peter Pett). In 1577 the 464-ton Revenge was built, together with
60-614: The Swedish mail issued a commemorative stamp of both ships. Full-rigged pinnace The full-rigged pinnace was the larger of two types of vessel called a pinnace in use from the sixteenth century . The word pinnace , and similar words in many languages (as far afield as Indonesia, where the boat " pinisi " took its name from the Dutch pinas ), came ultimately from the Spanish pinaza c. 1240, from pino ( pine tree ), from
72-655: The expedition could continue and the ships left port on December 31. Passing the Canary Islands and Saint Christopher Island the expedition reached Delaware Bay in March 1638 sailing up the Delaware River where they made landfall at the mouth of Christina River in present-day Wilmington, Delaware . Fogel Grip then cruised the Caribbean Sea for some time before returning to New Sweden bringing
84-552: The former slave Anthony Swartz from St. Kitts. The ship was then loaded with fur and tobacco before leaving for Sweden and on the return in around June 1639 the cargo was sold. In August 1639, Fogel Grip was shipwrecked on a sand shoal in Gothenburg harbor during a storm and abandoned. Models of Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel are kept at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . In 1938
96-452: The single-masted fore-and-aft rig with staysail and sprit mainsail to the mizzenmast , and a square sprit-sail under the bowsprit . Open square-sterned pulling boats were also called pinnaces at least as early as 1626. The larger pinnace 'type' was often much larger than the smaller tender type, and frequently carried enough cannon to be considered an (armed) merchantman, or fast and maneuverable small warship. The English pinnace Sunne
108-787: The time. Vessels at that time typically carried a mixture of unmatched cannon using disparate ammunition. The matched armament is considered revolutionary, and a contributing factor to the deadly reputation of the English naval artillery . The first English ship built in North America, Virginia of Sagadahoc , was a pinnace. Race-built galleon The race-built galleon was a type of war ship built in England from 1570 until about 1590. Queen's ships built in England by Sir John Hawkins and his shipbuilders, Richard Chapman , Peter Pett and Mathew Baker from 1570 were galleons of
120-738: The wood of which the ships were constructed. The word came into English from the Middle French pinasse . The pinnace is perhaps the most confusing of all the early seventeenth-century types of vessels. Pinnace was more of a use than a type name, for almost any vessel could have been a pinnace or tender to a larger one. Generally speaking, pinnaces were lightly built, single-decked, square-sterned vessels suitable for exploring, trading, and light naval duties. On equal lengths, pinnaces tended to be narrower than other types. Although primarily sailing vessels, many pinnaces carried sweeps for moving in calms or around harbors. The rigs of pinnaces included
132-597: Was Peter Minuit . In November 1637, Fogel Grip captained by Adrian Jöransen and Kalmar Nyckel captained by Jan Hindricksen van der Water left Gothenburg harbor. The crew was part Dutch and part Swedish; the Swedes on Fogel Grip were under the command of Måns Nilsson Kling . The expedition was caught in bad weather in the North Sea badly damaging both ships. Separated during the storm, both vessels made it to Texel and Medemblik for repairs. After about one month
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#1732772850556144-469: Was the first vessel reported built at the Chatham Dockyard , in 1586. English pinnaces of the time were typically of around 100 tons, and carried 5 to 16 guns. The Dutch built pinnaces during the early 17th century. Dutch pinnaces had a hull form resembling a small race-built galleon and usually rigged as a ship ( square rigged on three masts ), or carrying a similar rig on two masts (in
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