Jan Carel Josephus van Speyk (31 January 1802 – 5 February 1831) was a Dutch naval lieutenant commander with the United Netherlands Navy who became a hero...

HNLMS Van Speyk (Dutch: Zr.Ms/Hr.Ms. Van Speyk), was an Atjeh-class unprotected cruiser built in Amsterdam for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Van Speyk was...

Michiel de Ruyter, Commodore Jan van Galen, and Jan van Speyk. Despite being Roman Catholic, the poet and playwright Joost van den Vondel is buried in the...

Wappers' painting Scene of the September Days in 1830. History of Belgium Jan van Speyk Unionism in Belgium Luxembourg and the Belgian Revolution A Global Chronology...

She is the seventh ship in the Royal Netherlands Navy to be named after Jan van Speijk, who, during the Belgian Revolution, blew up his ship rather than...

gunboat under the command of Jan van Speyk into the quay of the port of Antwerp. As the ship was stormed by Belgians, van Speyk refused to surrender, instead...

HNLMS Willem van der Zaan, HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes, HNLMS Van Amstel, HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst, HNLMS Van Nes, HNLMS Van Galen, and HNLMS Van Speijk. Even...

have been named HNLMS Van Speijk (also spelled Speyk), after Jan van Speijk: HNLMS Van Speijk (1832), ex Argo, corvette; HNLMS Van Speijk (1842), ex Medusa...

the lighthouse, shaped like a tomb, is the official Dutch memorial to Jan van Speyk, a hero to the Dutch people. The treacherous sea near Egmond necessitated...

Pope Pius VIII, as the 254th pope. February 5 – Dutch naval lieutenant Jan van Speyk blows up his own gunboat in Antwerp rather than strike his colours on...