Claim: Lodewijk van Bylandt(1718 – Hoeven, 28 December 1793) was a Dutch lieutenant-admiral who first served as a midshipman then a captain of West Stellingwerff in 1756 and acting-commander of a Dutch naval expedition against Morocco.
Evidence: Lodewijk Count van Bylandt (, 1718 – Hoeven, 28 December 1793) was a Dutch lieutenant-admiral. Van Bylandt entered the Dutch navy as an adelborst (midshipman) in 1736 in which year he sailed on a cruise to Curaçao. In 1756 he was captain of West Stellingwerff and in 1768 of Thetis with which he took part in expeditions against the Barbary corsairs in those years. In 1775 Van Bylandt was acting-commander of a Dutch naval expedition (with the rank of rear-admiral) against Morocco.