I am glad to see that the third time seems to have been the charm. The East Indiaman looks very good.
By coincidence, I just received a copy of Charles Boxer's The Dutch Seaborne Empire: 1600-1800 (London: Hutchinson, 1965). On Thursday, I will complete my four-day graduate seminar on the strategy of the 1941-45 Pacific War and so will have the free time to read it and perhaps find an answer to your question, Erik.
Don
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