Captured ship: De Fortuyn of Rotterdam (master Bastiaan Noordijk). History: a Dutch...

Captured ship: De Fortuyn of Rotterdam (master Bastiaan Noordijk).

History: a Dutch merchant ship (64 tons, 6 men and a boy), bound from Bordeaux to Dunkirk or Rotterdam, laden with wine, brandy, two bags of feathers, one basket with two bottles of liquor therein, and a small square box of goods (contents unknown); taken on 14/25 May 1747 off Calais by the privateer Duke William (John Norris commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
• [CP 6]: attestation and claim;
• [CP 7]: allegation;
• [CP 8-CP 10]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translations of 39 of the ship's papers (SP 1 to 38, and [67]). Some of these papers were restored.

Ship's Papers (in Dutch, French and Danish):

• SP 1-SP 38: corresponding to the nos 1 to 38 in the abstract and translation of the Dutch and Danish papers (nos. 9-11, 13-16, and 18 and 19 are missing, presumed restored along with various journals and notebooks which are known to have been restored);
• [SP 39-SP 68]: originally unnumbered papers (SP 67 is the paper referred to as 'A' in the abstract and translation of the Dutch and Danish papers). Includes some Mail-in-Transit from Bordeaux to Dunkirk, letters received by the captain from his wife, and manuscript songs and loose printed pages of French songs on current affairs.

[Decision: cargo condemned, ship restored as Dutch ally, 14 July 1747]