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Captured ship: Cornelia (master Jan Nimmi or Niminy or Nimmy [a Scot]). History:...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/102/25

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This record is about the Captured ship: Cornelia (master Jan Nimmi or Niminy or Nimmy [a Scot]). History:... dating from 1748 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HCA 32/102/25

Date

1748

Description

Captured ship: Cornelia (master Jan Nimmi or Niminy or Nimmy [a Scot]).

History: a Dutch merchant ship (a snow, 75 tons, English built, 6 men and a boy), bound from Le Havre to Rotterdam, laden with sugar, rum, wine, calavanches [chickpeas] and 620 bundles of a dried grass called wouwe [weld or dyers rocket]; taken on 6/17 April 1748 off Dungeness by the privateer Sackville (Peter Wood commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: attestation and claim by the master;
  • [CP 7]: allegation;
  • [CP 8-CP 10]: attestation as to papers, and two abstracts and translations of the 15 ship's papers [which were restored].

[Decision: restored as a Dutch ally, 23 June 1748].

Note

Extra information from HCA 30/775/4

Related material

Appeal papers at HCA 42/26/18

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Closure status

Open Document, Open Description

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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