Crommesteven

The Crommesteven or cromsteven, often as crompster, cromster or crumster (from crom = bent, concave; steven = stem)[1] was a type of small warship used by the Dutch Republic and later by the British fleets during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.[2] It was designed for work inshore on the shoal Netherlands coast and was a ketch, spritsail rigged on the main, and lateen on the small mizzen.

As a class of vessel, it was represented in England by the hoy. When Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, her navy was reported to consist of 31 great ships, including galleons and crompsters, though crommestevens were considerably smaller than galleons.[3]

For its size, it was heavily armed and capable of influencing events ashore, in which respect it played a part in the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588.

Citations

  1. ^ Marquardt, p. 67
  2. ^ L. E. Harris: The Two Netherlanders Humphtey Bradlay and Cornelis Drebbel. Brill Archive, p. 96
  3. ^ Corbett, Julian Stafford: The successors of Drake, London : Longmans, Green 1900. p. 411

Bibliography

  • Marquardt, Karl Heinz (1992). "The Fore and Aft Rigged Ship". In Gardiner, Robert (ed.). The Line of Battle: The Sailing Warship 1650–1840. Conway's History of the Ship. Conway Maritime Press. pp. 63–84. ISBN 0-85177-954-9.


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