King David (ship)
King David (Polish Król Dawid ) was the name of a Polish galleon .
The ship
There is an inventory of 13 February 1629 for acceptance into imperial service: According to this, the ship was 200 loads tall, 120 feet long, 26 feet wide and 19 feet deep in space, with a deck height of 6 1/2 feet between the overflow and Cow bridge. The equipment consisted of half a karthaune from Denmark at 22 pounds , two metal pieces from Sweden at 12 pounds, two quarters at 9 pounds, nine metal pieces at 3 pounds, two metal scrap pieces at 15 and 8 pounds and two metal falconettes at 3 pounds / 4 pounds of cargo weight. There were 10 pieces of iron weighing 6 pounds (but one without a carriage ) and two pieces of stone with 5 chambers.
All possible items are listed in detail down to the stock and kitchen utensils. To sail the be Besan (Meysanh) with Bonnet , Großbram, Great Mars, United with Bonnet, foretop, jib with Bonnet, United blind and Bovenblinde listed. Profossen's chains, handcuffs and ankle cuffs are also not missing.
The name
In contemporary documents, the ship was always mentioned in the German form. However, since Polish independence, the translated version, Król Dawid , has always been used in publications .
history
The 400-ton ship, built in Danzig in 1623, was initially equipped with 32 guns of different calibers and manned by 60 sailors and 100 marines. In the Polish-Swedish War in 1627, the ship took part in the Battle of Oliwa , Poland's only naval victory, and then became the flagship of the Polish Navy.
Poland's King Sigismund III. Wasa rented the King David together with nine other Polish ships in 1629 to the Imperial Catholic camp of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation , which was at the time at war with Denmark, which was allied with the Protestant imperial princes. The King David became the admiral ship of the imperial Baltic Sea fleet created by Albrecht von Wallenstein and Philipp von Mansfeld , which was blocked by Danish and Swedish ships in Wismar . However , King David , who was now armed with 40 cannons , was able to break out and in the autumn of 1630 led a brief privateer war against Swedish ships off the Swedish coast before she had to flee from Swedish warships to Lübeck . There they were confiscated, disarmed and decommissioned, but the crew and the guns were released.
literature
- Georg Wislicenus and Willy Stöwer : Germany's sea power along with an overview of the history of seafaring of all peoples. Grunow, Leipzig 1896, p. 44. (Reprint: Reprint-Verlag Leipzig, Holzminden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8262-2313-6 )
- Franz Keym: History of the Thirty Years War. Herder'sche Verlagshandlung, Freiburg 1864, p. 88f.
- Kazimierz Lepszy: Inwentarz polskiej floty wojennej z 1629 r. In: Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej. Vol. XV (1967) No. 2, pp. 302-320.
Footnotes
- ↑ see Warhaidiger vnd the actual course of the tough meeting, so between Yr Königl: May: zu Polen vnd Sweden by Hertzogs Gustavi Adolphi from Südermanland Orlog's ships, before the Dantziger Reide, happened in the year 1627. On the first Sunday of Advent . Tandem bona causa triumphat. Danzig 1628 ( digitized version of the Pomorska Biblioteka Cyfrowa / Pomerania digital library ); Viktor Fenrych: Akta i diariusz Królewskiej Komisji Okrętowej Zygmunta III z lat 1627–1628. (Księgi Floty Ojczystej 14; Akta do dziejów Polski na morzu 6). Gdańsk 2001, ISBN 83-87359-52-1 ; ISBN 83-88583-04-2 . (The files and the diary are in German. The accompanying texts are available in Polish and English.)