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Captured ship: St Andrew of Copenhagen (master Dederick Royersen Keyl). History:...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1851/21

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This record is about the Captured ship: St Andrew of Copenhagen (master Dederick Royersen Keyl). History:... dating from 1691 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
HCA 32/1851/21
Date
1691
Description

Captured ship: St Andrew of Copenhagen (master Dederick Royersen Keyl).

History: a Danish merchant ship (85 tons), bound from Bordeaux to Amsterdam, laden with wine, brandy and paper; taken in August or September 1691 by the privateers Elizabeth and Catherine (William Young commanding), and Postilion (Henry Martin commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 3]: commission of appraisement, standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 4]: allegation;
  • [CP 5-CP 6]: two claims from merchants in Copenhagen;
  • [CP 7-CP 9]: attestation of Jan and Gerard Feijga in Amsterdam on behalf of Steffan Lindeman at Copenhagen, relating to the purchase of the St Andrew (formerly the St Peter), depositions in Danish, wrapper;
  • [CP 10-CP 11]: commission of appraisement, inventory;
  • [CP 12]: wrapper or docket of the ship's papers, were brought into court on 30 September 1691.

Ship's Papers: 54 papers, now SP 1-SP 52, with a SP 41A and SP 42A; these include letters to Keyl. A further set of ships papers were sent in with the appeal, and are kept with the appeal papers in HCA 42/1/6.

[Decision: condemned, 1 March 1692. Appealed]

Note
Extra information added from IND 1/9013 p17
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
HCA 32/13; HCA 32/15; HCA 32/21; HCA 32/33; HCA 32/1826
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Danish and English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17514026/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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