Captured ship: Witte Zeepaard [ White Seahorse ] of Flushing (Vlissingen) (master...

Captured ship: Witte Zeepaard [White Seahorse] of Flushing (Vlissingen) (master Pieter Jasperssen Heerensen).

History: a Dutch merchant ship, bound from Surinam to Vlissingen, laden with sugar and indigo; more mail from Fefiñanes, Galicia, Spain, was put onboard about mid-November 1672; taken on Dogger Bank on an unknown date sometime during January 1673 (before 4 February 1673) by HMS Warspite (John Wetwang commanding), brought into Gothenburg and there sold.

See Frank L. Fox, 'The Ronas Voe Incident, 1674', in Mariner's Mirror (forthcoming, February 2021); Calendar of State Papers 1672-1673, pp 516, 571.

Documents:-

Court Papers: no examinations extant

Ship's Papers: ship's papers (including books and booklets), master's archives, and mail in transit. Mail in transit: where possible, enclosures and sub-enclosures have been reunited with their original covering letters and envelopes, making 170 reconstructed packets in Folders 8-12. The total number of documents contained in these folders is thus greater.

Folder 1 (1/1-1/10): Master's papers

Folder 2 (2/1-2/20): Master's archive I (private and other trading)

Folder 3 (3/1-3/28): Master's archive II (plantation and legal process)

Folder 4 (4/1-4/2): Master's archive III (miscellaneous; undelivered mail)

Folder 5 (5/1-5/7): Ship's books I

Folder 6 (6/1-6/23): Bills of lading

Folder 7 (7/1-7/18): Merchant accounts

Folder 8 (8/1-8/43): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Ale-Cud)

Folder 9 (9/1-9/37): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Dal-Nas)

Folder 10 (10/1-10/43): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Par-Rui)

Folder 11 (11/1-11/29): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Sil-Wit)

Folder 12 (12/1-12/18): Mail from Galicia, Spain (I), letters by sender (Abe-Val)

Folder 13 (13/1-13/22): Papers concerning other ships (bills of lading) -

Bijenkorf [Beehive], master Jacob Soetelinck.

Aardenburg, master Jan Andriessen.

Fort Zeelandia, master Cornelis Bastiaensen.

Gekroonde Put [Crowned Well], master Daniel Jansen.

Folder 14 (14/1-14/3): Ship's books II; 3 booklets/notebooks -

Paybook of crew, 1670-1672 'Liste van [']t volck van het sceep Zeepaert ... 1670-1672' (with inserted note of goods, mainly clothes, supplied to the crew);

Account book, 1668-1672 (with a few rough calculations on the cover): ship expenses and victuals;

Cornelis Frans Eversdyck, Tafelen van de Wanne-mate (Middelburg, 1655). Printed booklet on cooperage (with inserted note, a loose account statement for Adriaen Pieterssen Tant, used for rough calculations).

Folder 15 (15/1-15/15): Mail from Galicia, Spain (II). Letters sent from Fefiñanes, Galicia, numbered by HCA and kept here in the court's sequence .

Topics

Clothing

Trade and commerce

Europe and Russia

Food and drink

Americas

Banking

Armed Forces (General Administration)