fleet departed from the port.

In the early 1700s the English painter John Thornhill lamented on how townspeople in ports took advantage of travellers who often had to wait for the weather to calm before a ship could sail. Hellevoetsluis was one of the ports mentioned in his journal in 1711:

Gravesend, Dover, Deal and Harwich

The devil gave his daughter in marriage

And further to fulfil his will

He threw in Helvoetsluice and Brill

The Voorne Canal Kanaal door

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