Captured ship: Arms of Hoorn , otherwise Wapen van Hoorn , Falcon (Cornelis Derricksen...

Captured ship: Arms of Hoorn, otherwise Wapen van Hoorn, Falcon (Cornelis Derricksen Rans of Hoorn commanding, otherwise Cornelis Derickson Rans)

History: a Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship, belonging to the Hoorn/North Holland kamer (regional chamber) of the VOC, built at Hoorn in 1662; 500 lasts, 32 guns, 280 men (including soldiers), plus some passengers; bound from Hoorn and the Texel to Batavia (Jakarta), laden with bricks, lead, copper plate, cables, anchors, Rhenish wine, Spanish wine, but no gold plate; left the Texel on 20 December 1672, almost certainly took the northabout route around Scotland, got as far as 45 degrees North (about the latitude of Bordeaux) in the eastern Atlantic or Bay of Biscay, off Finisterre, before being forced onto the French coast by storms; lost three suits of sails; having been forced to anchor at various places, lost eight cables and anchors, and many small-arms were thrown overboard; the mainmast broke; reached the Isle of Wight, but the ship leaking badly, to save the crew they ran the ship ashore near Portland Castle on 26 January 1673. The captain then took out of his cabin a great packet of [official] papers, letters, bills of lading, invoices and writings concerning the Dutch East India Company's affairs, and tied lead plates to each side and flung them overboard. Some were recovered from the sea. The ship was refloated and brought into Weymouth on 28 March 1673.

See also Calendar of State Papers Domestic 1672-1673, pp 485, 493, 510, 573, 586-587, 598 (ship given as of about 700 tons); Calendar of State Papers Domestic 1673, pp 2, 13, 75; J. R. Bruijn, F. S. Gaastra et al, Dutch-Asiatic Shipping in the 17th and 18th centuries (voyage 1241.4), also online at Huygens ING resources (ship given as 756 tons).

Court papers:

• For [CP 1-CP 2]: For the examinations, see HCA 32/1945/17.
• [CP 3]: detailed abstract in English made by Captain Hodder, commander of Portland Castle, of four boxes of personal letters A-D, all numbered by him. It is kept here for convenience.

Ship's papers (personal mail in transit):

• Box A of 26 letters, but letters A16, and A19-A26 are missing;
• Box B of 15 letters;
• Box C of 22 letters;
• Box D of 58 personal letters: letters of which D40, 44, 50, 51 and 56 and envelopes 42 and 55 are missing. The missing letters from Box D are as follows:
  • D40 Antyen Velters to her husband Dierick Janson Timerman;
  • D44 Maertien Peters to her husband Abraham Takesoon;
  • D50 Pietertjen Jantz to her husband Heindrick Clueson;
  • D51 Leasebet Zans to her husband Evert Besemaker;
  • D56 a will made by Johannes de Bruno, 1641

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Trade and commerce

Europe and Russia

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Food and drink

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Personal and family papers