Peter von Danzig (ship)

History
Name	Peter von Danzig
Acquired	by Danzig, 1462
Decommissioned	Second half of the 1470s
Homeport	Danzig
General characteristics
Type	Carrack
Tons burthen	ca. 800 tons
Length	ca. 51 m (167 ft 4 in) on deck ca. 31 m (101 ft 8 in) keel
Beam	ca. 12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Propulsion	760 m2 (8,181 sq ft) of sails
Crew	50 sailors, 300 marines
Armament	18 guns

Peter von Danzig was a 15th-century ship of the Hanseatic League. The three-masted ship was the first large vessel in the Baltic Sea with carvel planking.

Career[]

Peter von Danzig was built at the French west coast and originally named Pierre de la Rochelle or Peter van Rosseel. The ship arrived in Danzig in 1462, carrying sea salt from the Atlantic. While she anchored in roadstead, she was damaged by lightning.

The ship lay inactive for a while in Danzig harbour, but was eventually seized and changed over to a warship in 1469 after the Hanse had declared war on England.

Between August 1471 and 1473 Peter von Danzig operated in the North Sea under captain Paul Beneke, hunting English merchantmen with a letter of marque and securing Hanse convoys. After the Treaty of Utrecht (1474), the ship undertook several trade trips abroad, before she appears to have been decommissioned in the late 1470s.^[1]

See also[]

• List of ships of the Hanseatic League

References[]

Sources[]

• Jochen Brennecke: Geschichte der Schiffahrt, Künzelsau 1986 (2nd ed.) ISBN 3-89393-176-7, p. 62
• Propyläen Technikgeschichte (Ed. Wolfgang König): Karl-Heinz Ludwig, Volker Schmidtchen: Metalle und Macht. 1000 bis 1600. Berlin, Frankfurt/Main 1992 (2nd ed.) ISBN 3-549-05227-8

External links[]

• Media related to Peter von Danzig at Wikimedia Commons