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Captured ship: De Johanna (master Gerhard Rutger Aldag). History: a Hamburg ship...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/120/10

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HCA 32/120/10
Date
1747
Description

Captured ship: De Johanna (master Gerhard Rutger Aldag).

History: a Hamburg ship (100 tons, 10 men), bound from La Rochelle to Hamburg, laden with brandy, wine, treacle,vinegar, leather; taken on 27 July /7 August 1747 off Dover by the privateer Culloden (Abraham Boxell commanding), and brought into the Downs.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6-CP 8]: two attestations with translations, brought into court 28 July 1748;
  • [CP 9]: attestation and claim;
  • [CP 10-CP 19]: 10 sets of attestations, affidavits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Hamburg, Altona and the French Colony in Berlin, brought into court 23 October 1747;
  • [CP 20]: three schedules of restored, condemned and reserved goods
  • [CP 21-CP 22]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 34 ship's papers (many of these were restored).

Ship's Papers SP 1-2, SP 10, SP 13, SP 17-19; SP 33 only.

[Decision: part of cargo restored, 8 December 1747; part of cargo condemned, ship restored, 28 July 1748]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Dutch, English, French and German
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14513154/

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