* April 19 – Dorus Rijkers, famous Dutch sailor and savior of over 500 men, women and children ( b. 1847 )

* March 27 – Dorus Rijkers saves the 30-man crew of the Renown, risking his own life.

* January 28 – Dorus Rijkers, Dutch naval hero ( d. 1928 )

* " Opa " for the Dutch lifesaving KNRM-hero Dorus Rijkers.

* Dorus Rijkers

* Opa, the nickname of Dorus Rijkers, Dutch lifeboat-captain who rescued over 500 people in the course of his career

Dorus became a Grandpa ( Dutch: Opa ), at the age of 23 ( by marriage to a widow with eight children ), and soon everybody called him Opa.

* Dorus de Vries, Dutch footballer

Dorus de Vries ( born 29 December 1980 ) is a Dutch footballer who plays for Wolverhampton Wanderers as a goalkeeper.

For that purpose, it maintains 39 lifeboat stations along the Dutch coast of the North Sea and Wadden Sea and on the IJsselmeer.

* Martijn Sperling, a Dutch lifeboat captain, most famous for his sea rescue of 15 shipwrecked victims from the SS Berlin in 1907.

Perth is set on the Swan River, named after the native black swans in 1697 by Willem de Vlamingh, captain of a Dutch expedition and namer of WA's Rottnest Island.

* July 17 – Roemer Vlacq I, Dutch naval captain ( b. 1637 )

* date unknown – Willem Ysbrandtsz Bontekoe, Dutch sea captain ( b. 1587 )

* January 24 – Dutch captain Willem Schouten rounds the southern tip of South America and names it Kaap Hoorn, after his birthplace in the Netherlands.

Another legend claims that following the Navigation Acts ( an ordinance by Oliver Cromwell requiring all foreign fleets in the North Sea or the Channel to dip their flag in salute ) the Wilhelmus was sung ( or rather, shouted ) by the sailors on the Dutch flagship Brederode in response to the first warning shot fired by an English fleet under Robert Blake, when their captain Maarten Tromp refused to lower his flag.

* June 2 – Willem Ysbrandtsz Bontekoe, Dutch sea captain ( d. 1657 )

** Dirk Hartog, Dutch ship's captain and explorer ( d. 1621 )

In 1674, Dutch navy captain Jurriaen Aernoutsz also briefly captured two forts in the French colony of Acadia, which he claimed as the Dutch territory of New Holland.

The Dutch captain Maarten Gerritsz Vries in the Breskens entered the Sea of Okhotsk from the south-east in 1643, and charted parts of the Sakhalin coast and Kurile Islands, but failed to realize that either Sakhalin or Hokkaido are islands.

The Dutch captain, however, was not aware of their being on an island, and 17th century maps usually showed these points — and often Hokkaido, too — as parts of the mainland.

Ruud Gullit was thus the first Dutch captain to hold aloft international silverware.

In 1607, he joined the Dutch East India Company and left for Asia, returning with the rank of captain ( of the Hollandia ) five years later.

He became, after a conflict with the WIC about policy and payment, Lieutenant-Admiral of Holland and West Frisia on 26 March 1629, and thus factual supreme commander of the confederate Dutch fleet, taking as flag captain Maarten Tromp.

In this he was assisted by a Dutch captain, Laurens Heemskerck, who had fled to England after having been condemned to death for cowardice shown during the Battle of Lowestoft.

She retired from athletics in 1955, after which she became captain of the Dutch female track and field team.

On June 3, 1631, Dutch captain David Pietersen de Vries landed along the shores of the Delaware to establish a whaling colony in the mid-Atlantic of the New World.

These were retaken by the French captain Armand de Kersaint in 1782, and restored to the Dutch after the war.

The town was renamed Pattersonville after the captain successfully moved the post office to Dutch Settlement.

* 1665-Jacob, Baron van Wassenaer, Lord Of Obdam dies during a seabattle with the English while being the captain of a Dutch vessel.

The town is named for 1620 Dutch captain named Cornelius Jacobsen Mey who explored and charted the area between 1611 – 1614, and established a claim for the province of New Netherland.

Sea captain and explorer Henry Hudson, in search of the mythical Northwest Passage in the service of the Dutch West India Company, anchored along the shores of Sandy Hook Bay in 1609, describing the area " a very good land to fall in with and a pleasant land to see.

In the midst of this, in 1637, De Ruyter became captain of a private ship meant to hunt for raiders operating from Dunkirk who were preying on Dutch merchant shipping.

Roosenburg convinced a Dutch captain to give her group documentation stating that they were political prisoners and should have priority in transportation home ; the paperwork she suggested did not mention their nationality, and so left them free to impersonate French or Belgian political prisoners.

His story might have ended there, because the Russian captain, fearing that the lives of other crew members would be endangered, refused to allow a lifeboat to be launched in order to pick up Luckner when he fell overboard in the middle of the ocean.

The chief mate defied the captain ( who had threatened him with a harpoon ), and launched a lifeboat with the help of volunteers.

The Harbour Master and another of the lifeboat crew, George Castle, were on the Mary White with the ship's captain and the two others remaining of her crew, when the rope snapped and the lifeboat broke away from the wreck, which was rapidly going to pieces, soon to be devoured by the ‘ Shippe Swallower ’ ( Goodwin Sands ).

Due to the strange co-incidence of the recurrence of the names White, from Thomas and John the lifeboat builders, and the name of the brig Mary White and also the name of its captain, Mr. White, the lifeboat was thereafter named Mary White.

The captain swims to the lifeboat but when he is offered to be saved, he instead swims away to his apparent death.

In the book the destroyer captain hates the German captain so much he takes a swing at him while they're in the lifeboat!

The Ethel & Millie had just arrived on the scene as the Nelson sank, and her captain Skipper Charles Manning called for Nelson's lifeboat to come alongside.

A lifeboat crew from Thorpeness rescues Tim and his friend the sea captain in the Edward Ardizzone book Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain ( 1936 ), and are awarded medals for heroism by the Lord Mayor.

In one account it was said that survivors were seen clinging to the " upturned " ship and debris, which would be impossible if the ship were found intact and upright on the shoal, while another claims no trace was ever found of the crew, and a third claims the captain was seen clinging to a capsized lifeboat before he went missing.