Fred Olin Swart

Fred Swart is a retired Pharmacist. Interest in addition to model ship building are: Writing "The Circumnavigation of the Globe by Pieter Esais DeLnt, 1598-1603", Journal of the Hakluyt Society (on-line) January 2007; soon to be published, "The Life of Lambert Biesman, 1573-1601": Drawing and painting: Spinning and weaving: Messing around with wood.

Model Ship Completed: Blue Jacket Cat Boat (kit); Solid Hull Market Schooner "Flying Fish", scale 1:50 (kit); Scratch built plank of frame "Roter Lowe", Dutch-built armed merchantman of 1597, after plans by Mamoli (to be re-named "Hendrik Frederik", a ship of the same period and size which accompanied Oliver Van Nort on his circumnavagation of the Globe.

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