Baron of Renfrew (ship) was exempt from the high taxes on imported timber. She was built by Charles Wood, Anse du Fort, Quebec, Canada, on his own account. She followed the construction of a similar disposable ship, the barque "Columbus" built the year before. On August 23, 1825 under the command of captain Matthew Walker the ship left Quebec with a crew of 25 men and a cargo of 9000 tons timber (probably ship and cargo weight, both timber) bound for London, England. On October 21 of the same year the ship appeared in the English Channel but stranded the day after on the
Amsterdam (VOC ship) published in 1985 in The Red Series of Spike and Suzy. In the miniature park Madurodam in The Hague is a model of the "Amsterdam" on a scale of 1:25. Amsterdam (VOC ship) The Amsterdam () was an 18th-century cargo ship of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: "Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie"; "VOC"). The ship started its maiden voyage from Texel to Batavia on 8 January 1749, but was wrecked in a storm on the English Channel on 26 January 1749. The shipwreck was discovered in 1969 in the bay of Bulverhythe, United Kingdom, and is sometimes visible during low tides.