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The Battle of Ronas Voe was a naval engagement between the English Royal Navy and the Dutch East India ship Wapen van Rotterdam on 7 March 1674 in Ronas Voe, Shetland as part of the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Having occurred 16 days after the signing of the Treaty of Westminster, it was the final organised battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War.[1]
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Dutch East India Company | Kingdom of England | ||||||
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1 East Indiaman | |||||||
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Shortly after embarking on a journey towards the Dutch East Indies with trade goods and a company of soldiers, extreme weather conditions caused Wapen van Rotterdam to lose its masts and it was forced to take shelter in Ronas Voe for a number of months. A whistleblower in Shetland informed the English authorities of the ship's presence, and in response three Royal Navy men-of-war and a dogger were dispatched to capture the ship. After a short battle, the ship was captured and taken back to England as a prize of war.
Despite oral history indicating that that battle was costly in lives,[2] it resulted in zero fatalities and only a small number of casualties.[3] A site in Heylor known as the Hollanders' Graves, where those supposedly killed in the battle were thought to have been buried, is marked by a modern memorial. The publication in 2020 of accounts contrary to the previous general consensus of a high death toll has called into question who is truly buried at the site.[4]