At times fluyts were also armed and served as auxiliary vessels, which was a common practice in the Baltic Sea.

French flûte

Fluyts were called {{lang in the French Navy. By 1680 this term was used for all its large cargo ships regardless of if they were of the Dutch fluyt type.

The Swan

In 2003, Martin Mattenik and Deep Sea Productions, using side scanning sonar,

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