Captured ship: Fort Zeelandia of Flushing (Vlissingen) (master Cornelis Bastiaensen)....

Captured ship: Fort Zeelandia of Flushing (Vlissingen) (master Cornelis Bastiaensen).

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

Documents:-

Court Papers: HCA 32/8B/4

Folder 1 (1/1-1/6): Court papers: Claims. (These papers were found inside the cargo book now in Folder 3.)

Ship's Papers: ship's papers, cargo book, and mail in transit; 1 book and 213 documents, now arranged in 9 folders (Folders 2-10). Continued in HCA 30/1059.

Folder 2 (2/1): Master's papers: sea brief 28/01/1671

Folder 3 (3/1): Cargo book

Folder 4 (4/1-4/59): Bills of lading (Fort Zeelandia)

Folder 5 (5/1-5/48): Merchant papers: accounts, bills of exchange, receipts, delivery notes, etc

Folder 6 (6/1-6/56): Bills of lading: other ships -

Outbound to Surinam:

Bijenkorf [Beehive], master Jacob Soetelinck

Inbound from Surinam:

Gekroonde Put [Crowned Well], master Daniel Jansen

Poelwijk, master Cornelis Berghe

Anna, master Laurens Dobbelmuts

Folder 7 (7/1-7/10): Mail - letters not yet assigned

Folder 8 (8/1-8/20): Mail - orphaned envelopes not yet assigned

Folder 9 (9/1-9/2): Letters from St Eustatius

Folder 10 (10/1-10/17): Letters from Cape Verde Islands (via Marken, master Barent Harmensen Voocht).