Ship: Fortune - (Fortijn) (1)

Image Credits

Herring Fleet 1700, Pieter Vogelaer

Description

Described as a herring buss by the New Netherlands Voyages Database, 110 Tons.

Generally a 2 mast sailing vessel approximately 65 feet in length, and 60 - 100 tons, they often travelled in fleets, sometimes with a heavier naval war ship as an escort to prevent seizure by pirates or other countries.    The Dutch sometimes sent out fleets of 400-500 ships for fishing.

So these smaller ships that were also utilized for travel to the New World without escort would have been taking a very big risk to arrive in New Netherland.

For more reading on this type of ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herring_buss