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The Kennemerland

Out Skerries, Shetland

A Dutch East Indiaman wrecked on Shetland's most remote isles.

The Kennemerland sailed north around Scotland to avoid English warships, carrying coins and supplies for the East Indies. In a storm she struck the Out Skerries.

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When
December 1664
Where
60.4200, -0.7500
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

Out Skerries can be reached by ferry from Mainland Shetland.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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