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Portrait bust to the right within oval of rear admiral David Vlugh (? -1673). Vlugh was part of the annual blockade fleet of Lieutenant Admiral Maarten Tromp for the Dunkirk roadstead against the Dunkirk privateers. In 1659 he contributed to the liberation of the Danish islands under Vice Admiral Michiel de Ruyter. Vlugh was appointed captain of the new Coat of Arms of Nassau in 1665. With this he fights in the Four Days Battle. In 1666 he was promoted rear admiral. During the Third Anglo-Dutch War, he took part in the Battle of Solebay in 1672 with the Wapen van Enkhuizen flagship. In 1673 he was killed in the First Battle of the Schooneveld, as commander of a squadron of the third squadron. He is buried in the Westerkerk of Enkhuizen. Etching and engraving, probably by Matthäus Merian (1621-1687) and included as illustration in: Theatrum Europaeum, 1677.
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