Salomon Jansz van den Tempel (16 April 1633, in
Rotterdam
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– 10 November 1673, in Rotterdam) was a 17th-century master
shipbuilder
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. The ships he built included the
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ship of the line ''
De Zeven Provinciën'' (The Seven Provinces), which was built in 1664-65 for the
Admiralty of de Maze based in
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...
The "7 Provinciën"
at Batavia werf (one of the five autonomous Dutch admiralties
The Dutch Republic had five admiralties:
# Admiralty of Amsterdam (1586–1795)
# Admiralty of Friesland (1596–1795)
# Admiralty of the Noorderkwartier (1589–1795)
# Admiralty of Rotterdam (1574–1795)
# Admiralty of Zeeland (1584–1795)
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).
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1633 births
1673 deaths
Dutch shipbuilders
Businesspeople from Rotterdam
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