Captured ship: De Elbe Stroom otherwise De Elb Strohm otherwise Fiume Elba (master...

Captured ship: De Elbe Stroom otherwise De Elb Strohm otherwise Fiume Elba (master Jochim Dirksen).

History: a Hamburg ship (200 lasts, 19 men), bound from Venice, Trieste, Livorno [Leghorn], Oneglia, Porto Maurizio, San Remo, and Menton to Hamburg, laden with oil, oranges and lemons, wine and other goods; seized on 26 February/8 March 1748 while sheltering in the Downs by the privateers York (James Gravener commanding) and St Michael (George Cuningham commanding), and later brought into the River Thames.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations taken at Deal, commissioners' affidavit;
• [CP 6]: attestation and claim of the master, March 1748;
• [CP 7-CP 8]: two commissions of appraisement and sale, March 1748;
• [CP 9-CP 12]; appraisements, terms of sale, account of sale, account of costs, April 1748
• [CP 13-CP 14]: 2 sets of [total 9] attestations, affidavits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Hamburg, and brought into court on 10 May 1748;
• [CP 15]: schedules of goods to be restored or reserved;
• [CP 16-CP 18]: appointment of proxies by the claimants, and translation;
• [CP 19-CP 22]: 4 sets of [total 5] attestations, affidavits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Hamburg, Livorno and Oneglia, and brought into court on 12 November 1748;
• [CP 23-CP 25]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 76 ship's papers in Italian and Dutch [these papers were restored]. Also briefly noted were several ship's books and three bundles of letters from Mr Dorrin (Johan Ludwig Dorien) the owner and others.

[Decision: part of the cargo restored 10 May 1748; ship and the rest of the cargo restored as neutral, 12 November 1748]