![]() |
KONINKLIJK INSTITUUT |
K I M[Ben Oostdam's |
![]() |
1735-1819 Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen After 10 years service in the Netherlands, he fights with great success in Russian service against the Turkish in the Black Sea.||Returns to Holland and managed to obtain favorable peace conditions from the Sultan of Morocco by virtue of his courageous and steadfast attitude.||Distinguishes himself in 1781 in the Battle of Doggersbank in which the crew which he had trained and accustomed to strict discipline deemed themselves invincible.|| Is promoted to Lieutenant Admiral in 1793 when he prevented the French army under Dumourie to enter our country.||Leaves the country's service in 1795.|| Under the reign of King William I, he laid the foundation of the new Dutch seaforce.|| His burial site is in the New Church in Amsterdam. |
BLO fecit 17 VII 1998; add 20020210 |
![]() |
1952 Training Cruise on the "van Kinsbergen" to New Guinea, part 3 |