The two principal types of fishing craft in the North Sea were the buss and the “dogger.” With regard to the former, the earliest illustration I have discovered is that by Elandts in the Municipal Museum at The Hague, made in 1664 from a picture of 1570. This “haring buys” is the prototype of the seventeenth-century buss, and consists of two masts, each having a square-sail. Like the modern drifter, the buss lowered her foremast and rode to her nets. This Elandts buss is really nothing more than a large open boat, with three hands in her; the length of the craft I reckon not more than about thirty feet. A rather bigger type, similarly rigged but with three masts, is depicted in the Dutch Waghenaer’s _Speculum Nauticum_ of 1584 riding to her nets, with fore and mainmasts lowered. Among the sixteen ships which Frobisher took with him in 1578, one was the _Emmanuel_ of Bridgewater, and she is described as a buss. It will be recollected that this was another attempt to find the north-west passage to China, and this craft performed most admirable service, and as she came homeward discovered an island which had never before been sighted. Thus, there is no question about the seaworthiness of this fishing type of craft. In the Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, there is an interesting painting by Bellevois showing a mid-seventeenth-century buss of a powerful type, with three masts, a square-sail on each, and riding with her mizzen up, but the other sails and masts lowered. Keymor, who wrote in 1601 on the Dutch fishing, describes these craft as being from sixty to two hundred tons, and carrying from forty to a hundred lasts. The anonymous author of _Britaine’s Busse_, published in 1615, describes them as being of from thirty-five lasts or seventy tons, and measuring fifty feet on the keel, with a beam of seventeen feet. Her cost, together with her boat, was £260. There is another fine picture of these craft by Storck, hanging in the Mauritshuis at The Hague, the date being 1683, and from the rounded stern and general lines of the ship it is easy enough to see that she belongs to the same family to which the familiar Scheveningen “pink,” so well known in modern art, belongs. Often in the mediæval records one finds reference to a North Sea fishing type called the “dogger.” Exactly what these were like, it would be impossible to say, except that they probably had not more than two masts carrying square-sails, and that they were line fishers, for cod and ling, and did not use nets, their size in the seventeenth century varying from sixty to one hundred tons. It is reasonable to suppose, from the later illustrations which exist, that the dogger was in hull and square-sails not very different from the buss.