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Captured ship: De Rysende Sonn otherwise De Riesende Son or Die Aufgenhende Sonne...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/149/23

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This record is about the Captured ship: De Rysende Sonn otherwise De Riesende Son or Die Aufgenhende Sonne... 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 32/149/23

Date

1748

Description

Captured ship: De Rysende Sonn otherwise De Riesende Son or Die Aufgenhende Sonne of Flensburg (master Swen Boysen).

History: a Danish ship (72 lasts, 9 men, 2 boys and 1 passenger), bound from Bordeaux to Hamburg, laden with wine, brandy, sugar, coffee, turpentine and cork; taken on 26 April /6 May 1748 off Beachy Head by the privateer Anson (Benjamin Goodwin 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-CP 19]: 12 sets of attestations, affidavits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Rantzau, Tonder, Bremen, Berlin, the French colony in Magdeburg, Hamburg, Husum, Erfurt and Breslau;
  • [CP 20-CP 21]: attestation as to papers, and abstracts and translations of the 52 ship's papers [which were restored].

[Decision: restored 28 June 1748]

Note

Extra information from HCA 30/775/4

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

Danish, English and German

Closure status

Open Document, Open Description

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14513853/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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