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Captured ship: Fort Zeelandia , master Cornelis Bastiaensen. History: bound from...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/8B/4

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HCA 32/8B/4
Date
1672
Description

Captured ship: Fort Zeelandia, master Cornelis Bastiaensen.

History: bound from Surinam to Flushing, laden with sugar, 'specled' wood and indigo; taken on 13 March 1672 off the Isle of Wight by HMS Nightingale (Henry Clarke commanding) and brought into Portsmouth.

Documents: examination of the master taken on 11 April; letter reporting that the papers, packets and sea briefs are included, and that the skipper and crew had run away for fear of being imprisoned as prisoners of war before they could be further examined on interrogatories

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The National Archives, Kew
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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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