''Wapen van Rotterdam'' was a

Dutch East India Company The United East India Company ( nl, Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock ...

East Indiaman East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. The term is used to refer to vesse ...

that was built in 1666 for the Rotterdam Chamber of the VOC, and was operated from 1667, twice travelling to the Indies, until its capture by the English

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's frigate HMS ''Newcastle'' on 14 March 1674 in the

Battle of Ronas Voe The Battle of Ronas Voe was a naval engagement between the English Royal Navy and the Dutch East India ship ''Wapen van Rotterdam'' on 14 March 1674 in Ronas Voe, Shetland as part of the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Having occurred 23 days after the s ...

. After its capture, it was renamed HMS ''Arms of Rotterdam'' (sometimes spelled ''Armes of Rotterdam)'' and was refitted as an unarmed

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. In 1703 ''Arms of Rotterdam'' was broken down in Chatham.

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