Maarten Harpertzoon Tromp

23 April 1598 – 10 August 1653. A Dutch army general and admiral in the Dutch navy. In the First Anglo-Dutch War of 1652 to 1653, Tromp commanded the Dutch fleet in the  battles of Dover,   Dungeness,  Portland,  the Gabbard  and  Scheveningen. In the latter, he was killed.

Witte Corneliszoon de With

28 March 1599 – 8 November 1658. A Dutch naval officer. He is noted for planning and participating in a number of naval battles during the Eighty Years War and the First Anglo-Dutch war. De With died in the Battle of the Sound, during the Northern Wars.

Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter

24 March 1607 – 29 April 1676. A Dutch admiral. Widely celebrated and regarded as one of the most skilled admirals in Dutch history, De Ruyter is arguably most famous for his achievements with the Dutch Navy during the Anglo-Dutch Wars. He fought the English and French forces and scored several critical victories, with the Raid on the Medway being the most famous among them.

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

25 November 1577 – 18 June 1629. A Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years’ War. Hein captured a large part of a Spanish treasure fleet which transported huge amounts of gold and silver from Spanish America to Spain. The amount of silver taken was so big that it resulted in the rise of the price of silver worldwide and the near bankruptcy of Spain. He died in a campaign against the Dunkirkers.

Hendrick Corneliszoon Loncq

1568 – 10 October 1634. A Dutch naval hero, was the first Dutch sea captain to reach the New World. Lonck replaced Hein in 1629 as captain-general. In 1630, he captured the historic city of Olinda, Brazil on 14 February, followed by the capture of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. He died in Amsterdam and was buried on 10 October 1634 in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.

Cornelis Corneliszoon Jol

1597 – 31 October 1641, nicknamed Houtebeen (“pegleg”), was a 17th-century Dutch corsair and admiral in the Dutch West India Company during the Eighty Years’ War between Spain and the Dutch Republic.  The Spanish also nicknamed him El Pirata. In 1640, he set took the city of Luanda (in Agola) and the island of São Tomé from the Portuguese. While on São Tomé, he was struck by malaria and died on 31 October 1641.

Egbert Bartolomeusz Kortenaer

1604 – 13 June 1665. An admiral of the United Provinces. He died during the Battle of Lowestoft on 13 June 1665, Kortenaer commanded the van and was second in overall command behind the also killed Van Wassenaer. He was fatally wounded early in the battle on Groot Hollandia by a cannonball hitting his hip.

Johan Evertsen

1 February 1600 – 5 August 1666. A Dutch admiral. When Johan’s brother Cornelis Evertsen the Elder was killed in the Four Days’ Battle, Johan joined the fleet and took command of the vanguard of De Ruyter. He was killed on the first day of the St James’s Day Battle.

Cornelis Evertsen the Elder

4 August 1610 – 11 June 1666. A Dutch admiral. When the next major naval battle was fought with England in June 1666, the Four Days Battle, Cornelis the Elder was killed on the first day on the Walcheren, cut in two by the parting shot of the escaping Henry. Two of his children would become flag officers as well: his second child, named after him, Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest (1642–1706) and the tenth son Lieutenant-Admiral Geleyn Evertsen (1655–1711). Both would be supreme commanders of the confederate Dutch fleet. 

Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam

1610 – 13 June 1665. Lord of Wassenaer, Lord Obdam was a Dutch nobleman who became  lieutenant admiral, and supreme commander of the navy of the Dutch Republic.  He died during the Battle of Lowestoft (the worst naval defeat in Dutch history). The Dutch flagship Eendragt duelled her counterpart  HMS Royal Charles and exploded. Van Wassenaer was not among the five survivors.  His son, also named Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, was a military commander in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Tjerk Hiddes de Vries

6 August 1622 – 6 August 1666) was a naval hero and Dutch admiral. Six weeks after  Four Days Battle during the St James’s Day Battle he was second in command of the van under Lieutenant-Admiral Johan Evertsen.  Tjerk had an arm and a leg shot off; yet still in vain tried to rally his force. His crippled ship drifted away, only discovered by the Dutch rear under Cornelis Tromp the next day. The wounded Frisian admiral was speedily brought ashore in Flushing by a yacht – but died from his wounds on his birthday, 6 August 1666.

Cornelis Evertsen the Elder

4 August 1610 – 11 June 1666. A Dutch admiral. When the next major naval battle was fought with England in June 1666, the Four Days Battle, Cornelis the Elder was killed on the first day on the Walcheren, cut in two by the parting shot of the escaping Henry. Two of his children would become flag officers as well: his second child, named after him, Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest (1642–1706) and the tenth son Lieutenant-Admiral Geleyn Evertsen (1655–1711). Both would be supreme commanders of the confederate Dutch fleet.