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Captain Jan, the Glossary

Captain Jan (Hollands Glorie) is a 1940 novel by Dutch writer Jan de Hartog.^[1]

33 relations: Burial at sea, Cape Horn, Chile, Crane vessel, Dredging, Dry dock, Dutch Brazilians, Dutch Golden Age, Elsevier, Falkland Islands, Gestapo, Historical fiction, IJmuiden, Internet Archive, Jan de Hartog, Lighter (barge), Nazi Germany, Netherlands, New Guinea, Noordhollandsch Kanaal, Plague (disease), Rotterdam, Royal Navy, Sluice, Smit International, Socialism, The Captain (novel), Titan (steam tug 1894), Trade union, Trading card, Valparaíso, World War I, World War II.
Dutch historical novels
Fictional sea captains
Tugboats in fiction

Burial at sea

Burial at sea is the disposal of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship, boat or aircraft.

Cape Horn

Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Crane vessel

A crane vessel, crane ship, crane barge, or floating crane is a ship with a crane specialized in lifting heavy loads, typically exceeding for modern ships.

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Dredging

Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment.

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Dry dock

A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform.

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Dutch Brazilians

Dutch Brazilians (Neerlando-brasileiro; Nederlandse Brazilianen) refers to Brazilians of full or partial Dutch ancestry.

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Dutch Golden Age

The Dutch Golden Age (Gouden Eeuw) was a period in the history of the Netherlands which roughly lasted from 1588, when the Dutch Republic was established, to 1672, when the Rampjaar occurred.

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Elsevier

Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.

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Gestapo

The Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated Gestapo, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.

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IJmuiden

IJmuiden is a port city in the Dutch province of North Holland.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Jan de Hartog

Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker.

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Lighter (barge)

A lighter is a type of flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships.

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Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.

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Noordhollandsch Kanaal

The Noordhollandsch Kanaal ("Great North Holland Canal") is a canal originally meant for ocean-going ships.

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Plague (disease)

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Rotterdam

Rotterdam (lit. "The Dam on the River Rotte") is the second-largest city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Sluice

A sluice is a water channel containing a sluice gate, a type of lock to manage the water flow and water level.

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Smit International

Smit Internationale N.V. (or Smit International) is a Dutch company operating in the maritime sector.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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The Captain (novel)

The Captain is a 1967 novel by Dutch writer Jan de Hartog. Captain Jan and The Captain (novel) are Dutch historical novels, fictional sea captains, novels set in the Netherlands and novels set on ships.

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Titan (steam tug 1894)

The Titan (later: Drente) was a steam tug that was built in 1894 and sailed for three Dutch tug companies until it was decommissioned in 1935.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Trading card

A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other text (attacks, statistics, or trivia).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Jan

Also known as Hollands Glorie.