Peter von Danzig
1471
(Johann Wolkersdorfer JW 37)
- Class: Caravel
- Displacement: 800 tons
- Dimensions: 162 x 44 ft.
- Armament: 18 guns
- Complement: 350
- Built: Rochelle, France
- Launched: 1462
- Service: The Peter von Danzig was the first large vessel in the Baltic featuring caravel planking. Built in France as the Peter von Rochelle or Peter van Rosseel. Carrying sea salt from the Atlantic, the ship arrived in Danzig in 1462 after having been damaged in a storm. The ship lay inactive for a while after the owner died without having paid the cost of repair. The ship was eventually seized and converted to a warship when the Hanse declared war on England. Between 1471 and 1473 the ship operated in the North Sea hunting English merchantmen and protecting Hanse convoys. After the Peace of Utrecht in 1474, the ship undertook several trading voyages before it was decommissioned in the late 1470s.
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