Vlie

The 19. we tooke shipping and by the Zuydersee we passed that day the Vlie, and so into the maine sea; And the next day we entred into the riuer of Hamburg called the Elbe.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

There appears to be no ground for saying that the boat was so called because it first came into use upon the river Vlie in Holland.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

The enormous fishing trade done in our own waters by the Dutch, the splendid fleet of fishing craft with twenty thousand handy sailors on board, ready by every 1st of June to sail out of the Maas, the Texel, and the Vlie, to catch herring in the North Sea, excited admiration, envy, and almost despair.

Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905

Amsterdam or elsewhere; and those who take them from Amsterdam, go no further than the Texel road or the Vlie, [58] and other pilots carry them out to sea.

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898

[Footnote 58: The Texel channel being the great western passage out from the Zuider Zee, the other or eastern passage was the Vlie, lying on the other side of the great shoal known as the Bree Sand, and leading out between the islands of Vlieland and Schelling.] [Footnote 59: A guilder or florin was equivalent to about 40 cents.]

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898

Company in Holland had sent out in March last, on purpose to seek a passage to China by northeast or northwest, a skilful English pilot, named Henry Hudson, in a Vlie boat, having a crew of eighteen or twenty men, partly English, partly Dutch, well provided.

Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 1898

[Footnote 2: A small swift ship of Dutch pattern (originally _Vlie boot_).] [Footnote 3: Patuxent River, in Maryland.] [Footnote 4: _I. e._, supercargo.]

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

[11] _Cf. _ a similar conversation that Pepys had on October 28 with a certain Captain Guy, who had been in command of a small fourth-rate of thirty-eight guns in Holmes's attack on the shipping at Vlie and

Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888

The low lands along the Vlie, often threatened, at last sank in the waves.

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

The low lands along the Vlie, often threatened, at last sank in the waves.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845