Captured ship: Catherina Elizabeth otherwise Catrina Elizabet of Middelburg (master...

Captured ship: Catherina Elizabeth otherwise Catrina Elizabet of Middelburg (master Nicholaas Robijn or Nicholas Robyn).

History: a Dutch merchant ship (130 Dutch lasts, 16 guns) with a French master, bound from Dunkirk to Bordeaux, laden with pantiles, bricks, coal, tin, pitch, tar, white lead and tobacco piipes, but suspected of contraband; taken on 18/29 April 1747 between Dover and Calais by the privateer Endeavour (Edward Croswell commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 7]: standing interrogatories, five examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
• [CP 8]: attestation and claim;
• [CP 9]: attestation of suspicion of warlike stores;
• [CP 10-CP 12]: commission of appraisement and sale, with sale account and inventory;
• [CP 13-CP 14]: commision of inspection, and inventory;
• [CP 14-CP 16]: attestation that Dutch ships using the Straits trade (via Gibraltar) always carry guns and ammunition for defence against the Tangier row boats, with a printed sale inventory of the Catherina Elizabeth at Amsterdam, in Dutch, from August 1746, and a translation - see also CP 26 and SP 10;
• [CP 17]: attestation as to the Catherina Elizabeth still being in good condition;
• [CP 18-CP 19]: two allegations, 1748;
• [CP 21-CP 22]: letter of attorney and translation;
• [CP 23]: attestation as to papers;
• [CP 24 -CP 26]: abstract and translations of the 21 ship's papers.

Ship's Papers, numbered SP 1-SP 17, with:-

• SP 9/1-6, ship's passes;
• SP 12: journal of this ship Catherina Elizabeth;
• SP 13: a large book containing the log or journal kept by Joannes David the mate of the Catherina Elizabeth, for
  • King of Denmark or Koninck van Denemark of Copenhagen (master Philip Jacob Derdeijn), 1742-1743 [pp 1-275];
  • Vliegende Marckurius, May-June 1746 [pp 278-279];
  • Drie Vrienden or Three Friends (master Walter Kelly), July-October 1746 [pp 280-299;
  • Elizabeth and [sic], 15-16 April [1747] [p 300];
  • navigation exercises [pp 402-426];
  with SP 13/A a pass of December 1743 issued at Cork to David and another, late of the King of Denmark;
• SP 14: ship's accounts;
• SP 15, a small blank book, is not here.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 5 July 1748]