Jacob van der Windt (baptized September 15, 1745 – October 15, 1792), also spelled van der Wint, from Vlaardingen was the skipper on the herring buss "De Roode Roos", owned by ship owner Assendelft de Coningh (1747–1803).
Because of the outbreak of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784) he sailed from Brielle on December 29, 1780, to the fishing fleet of Vlaardingen en Maassluis consisting of respectively 82 and 63 vessels at the Dogger Bank. Thanks to this warning journey, only a few ships were attacked by the English. Nearly the entire fleet returned safely.
Van der Windt returned to Vlaardingen on January 11, 1781.A report of the return to Vlaardingen is printed a few days later in: Noordhollandsche Courant, Januari 15, 1781, p. 1 He was honored with a silver commemorative medalCollection Museum Vlaardingen on maritiemdigitaal.nl: Commemorative medal for Jacob van der Wint (Windt) in 1781 and a glass goblet. On the front of both the medal and the jar is a representation of Van der Windt's ship.
The text on the glass goblet at Museum Vlaardingen reads: "" (translated: "1780 the 29th of December of Vlaarding sailed out to inform our fleet of the war and to summon them, safely returned on the 11th of January 1781").
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