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The shift to larger ships is quite striking, particularly from the 1740's onward. Smaller ships were hardly built any more. It is also worth noting that the Delft chamber was never able to build ships of the first category, and that Hoorn and Enkhuizen did this only sporadically. Table 3 shows the six chambers' shares in the four categories. The third
Table 3: Numbers of ships per category built in the six Company shipyards
First category (> 1,000 tons) AΖRDΗE
c.1600-49 8 3 1 2
1650-99 24103 11 1700-49 35 18 1
1750-94 108475 23
c. 1600-1794 175 78 10 54
Second category (800-1,000 tons) AΖRDΗE
c. 1600-49 6 1650-99 16 1700-49 78 1750-94 11
4 1 3
4 2 4 43 12 13 11 22 28
1 1 13 8 26 18
40 27
c. 1600-1794 111 62
37 48
Third category (500-800 tons) AΖRDΗE
c.1600-49 41113454 1650-99 6133810910
1700-49 69 1750-94 5
c. 1600-1794 176
Fourth category (< 500 tons)
2616171625 2
c. 1600-49 1650-99 1700-49 1750-94
c. 1600-1794
A = Amsterdam Ζ = Zeeland
100 117 37 12
40 42 8 4
87 10 17 23 20 13 15 4 3 5 2 1 1 1
32 27 38
Η = Hoorn
E = Enkhuizen
7227313039 AΖRDΗE
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D = Delft
94 33 R = Rotterdam