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Captured ship: Santa Maria van Conceptie (master Lucas Pruijs). History: a Dutch...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/1051
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HCA 30/1051
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1664
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Captured ship: Santa Maria van Conceptie (master Lucas Pruijs).
History: a Dutch or Venetian ship, bound from Venice to Amsterdam via Messina and Cadiz, laden with luxury goods (glass, carpets, silk), alum and saltpetre, rice and linseed; having joined the homebound Dutch Smyrna convoy off Malaga, was attacked off Cadiz by British naval forces under Admiral Thomas Allin, 19 December 1664, taken by HMS Antelope (Robert Clarke commanding) and brought into Plymouth, 16 March 1665, by HMS Dover. [The ship was iIncorporated into the British Royal Navy as HMS Sancta Maria or Maria Sancta in September 1665.]
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- Bundle 1: Master's papers I (numbered 1/1-1/21): sea briefs, passes, bills of health, ships inventories, crew agreements, convoy instructions;
- Bundle 2: Master's papers II (numbered 2/1-2/36): ships expenses; crew musters; freight agreements;
- Bundle 3: Merchant accounts (numbered 3/1-3/58);
- Bundle 4: Bills of lading and manifests (numbered 4/1-4/187): of these, 4/1-4/171 were on an original thong, and are additionally numbered (on reverse, top left) in this original order. 4/1-4/132 are bills of lading;
- Bundle 5 : Master's archive I (numbered 5/1-5/27): Lestevenon letters, 1661-1663;
- Bundle 6: Master's archive II (numbered 6/1-6/28): Lestevenon letters, 1663-1664;
- Bundle 7: Master's archive III (numbered 7/1-7/21): Sorer and Lauber letters, 1661-1664;
- Bundle 8: Master's archive IV (numbered 8/1-8/13): De Vries, Clark and Janssen letters, 1662-1664;
- Bundle 9: Master's archive V (numbered 9/1-9/16): Lijsbet Amelingh, wife of Lucas Pruijs, letters to her husband, 1661-1664;
- Bundle 10: Master's archive VI (numbered 10/1-10/43): other letters, by sender (surname B-Z; supplement); miscellaneous items, 1661-1664;
- Bundle 11 : Master's archive VII (numbered 11/1-11/15): copy out-letters and notes;
- Bundle 12: Mail in transit (numbered 12/1-12/19): letters for delivery;
- Bundle 13: Papers concerning owners' previous ships (numbered 13/1-13/7, on 2 thongs): Koningin Elisabeth otherwise Keizerin (Queen Elizabeth or Empress), Sytge Sickis, master, 1661, and Reine Élisabeth (Queen Elizabeth), 1661-(1664);
- Bundle 14: papers concerning other ships (numbered 14/1-14/5): Gioana or Joanne (master Albert Mart), Santa Agata or St Agatha (master Petro Simoni), Giustitia or Justice (master Jacomo Jacomo), Susanna (master Abrado di Petro), and Res Salamon or King Solomon (master Giovan Redolfo), 1664.
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