- 21 July 1943, The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

) was a Dutch naval officer and naval historian. Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck was the son of the notary Cornelis Warnsinck and his wife, Tettje Halbertsma. He entered the Royal Naval Academy at Den Helder in 1899 and was commissioned an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy

Royal Netherlands Navy

The Koninklijke Marine is the navy of the Netherlands. In the mid-17th century the Dutch Navy was the most powerful navy in the world and it played an active role in the wars of the Dutch Republic and later those of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands...

 in 1903, eventually rising to the rank of captain in 1930. In 1919, he married Catarina Elisabeth Delprat and they had one son and a daughter. He saw naval service in the East and West Indies as well as in European waters. In the Royal Netherlands Navy, he was a hydrographic specialist. From about 1920, he began to be interested in naval history and began with a special interest in the three Anglo-Dutch wars (1652-1674). He retired from active service in 1932 and devoted the remainder of his life to the study of Dutch maritime history.

Warnsinck became a key pioneer for the academic study of maritime history in The Netherlands. In 1933, he was appointed a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and additionally at Leiden University in 1937. In 1939, he became Professor of Maritime History at the University of Utrecht. For many years, he was on the Council of the Linschoten Society and Secretary of the Commission for maritime history of the Royal Academy of Science. In 1938, he was elected an associate member of the Académie de Marine

Académie de Marine

The Royal Naval Academy of France was founded at Brest by a ruling of 31 July 1752 by Antoine Louis de Rouillé, comte de Jouy, Secretary of State for the Navy...

 in Paris.

Works

• De retourvloot van Pieter de Bitter
  Pieter de Bitter
  Pieter de Bitter was a 17th century Dutch officer of the Dutch East India Company. On 12 August 1665 he won the Battle of Vågen against an English flotilla commanded by Thomas Teddiman....
  
   (Kerstmis 1664-Najaar 1665) (1929)

• Reisen van Nicolaus de Graaff, gedaan naar alle gewesten des werelds, beginnende 1639 tot 1687 incluis (1930)

• Admiraal de Ruyter
  Michiel de Ruyter
  Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter is the most famous and one of the most skilled admirals in Dutch history. De Ruyter is most famous for his role in the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th century. He fought the English and French and scored several major victories against them, the best known probably...
  
  , de zeeslag op Schooneveld
  Battle of Schooneveld
  The Battles of Schooneveld were two naval battles of the Franco-Dutch War, fought off the coast of the Netherlands on 7 June and 14 June 1673 between an allied Anglo-French fleet commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, and the fleet of the United Provinces, commanded by Michiel de Ruyter.The...
  
  (1930).

• De geschiedenis van ons zeewezen : rede uitgesproken bij de opening zijner lessen in de geschiedenis van het zeewezen op den 30sten Mei 1933 (1933).

• De vloot van den Konig-Stadhouder
  William III of England
  William III & II was a sovereign Prince of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned as William III over England and Ireland...
  
   1689-1690 (1934).

• De kweekschool voor de Zeevaart en de Stuurmanskunst, 1785-1935 (1935).

• De wetenschappelijke voorbereiding van onze eerste schipvaart naar Oost-Indië (1936).

• Abraham Crijnssen
  Abraham Crijnssen
  Abraham Crijnssen was a Dutch naval commander, notable for capturing Suriname from the British in 1667 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The minesweeper HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen and the frigate HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen have been named after him.-Suriname recaptured:...
  
  : de verovering van Suriname
  Suriname
  Suriname , officially the Republic of Suriname , is a country in northern South America. It borders French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west, Brazil to the south, and on the north by the Atlantic Ocean. Suriname was a former colony of the British and of the Dutch, and was previously known as...
  
   en zijn aanslag op Virginië in 1667 (1936).

• Iaerlyck verhael van de verrichtinghen der Geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie in derthien boecken (1931-37)

• Piet Heyn: generaal in dienst der West-Indische Compagnie, luitenant-admiraal van Holland, 1577-1629 (1937)

• De kapiteinsjaren van Maerten Harpertszoon Tromp
  Maarten Tromp
  Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp was an officer and later admiral in the Dutch navy. His first name is also spelled as Maerten.-Early life:...
  
  (1938)

• Drie zeventiende-eeuwsche admiraals: Piet Heyn, Witte de With, Jan Evertsen (1938, 1943, 1976)

• Itinerario: voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien, 1579-1592 ; *Dl. 4-5*Reys-gheschrift vande navigatien der Portugaloysers / uitg. door J.C.M. Warnsinck (1939)

• De zeeoorlog van Holland en Zeeland tegen de Wendische steden der Duitse Hanze 1438-1441 (1939)

• Een mislukte aanslag op Nederlands Brazilië, 1639-1640 (1940)

• Twaalf doorluchtige zeehelden (1941)

• De reis om de wereld van Joris van Spilbergen
  Joris van Spilbergen
  Joris van Spilbergen was a Dutch naval officer of the 17th century.His first major expedition was in 1596, when he sailed to Africa....
  
  , 1614-1617 (1943)

• Straat- en bochtvaarders : zijnde het korte historiael ende journaels aenteyckeninge van drie voyagiens(1943)