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Captured ship: De Twee Gebroeders of Workum (master Tabe or Tabbe Douwes). History:...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/155/26

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Reference
HCA 32/155/26
Date
1747
Description

Captured ship: De Twee Gebroeders of Workum (master Tabe or Tabbe Douwes).

History: a Dutch merchant ship (27 lasts, 4 men and a boy), bound from Saardam to Rouen, laden with salt fish, iron, brass wire, alum, cotton, paper, dyewood, tobacco, elephants teeth [ivory], blue pepper, ebony wood, copperas, silk, lemon juice, chalk, lime juice, and whale bone; taken on 25 August / 5 September 1747 off Vlissingen (Flushing) by HMS Saltash (John Knight commanding) and the privateer Eagle (John Bazely commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 6]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit, wrapper;
  • [CP 7]: attestation and claim;
  • [CP 8]: allegation;
  • [CP 9-CP 11]: attestation as to papers, and abstracts and translations of the 37 ship's papers (all these papers were restored).

[Decision: restored, 17 November 1747]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14514016/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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