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Captured ship: Appelboom or Apple Tree (master Jan Michielsen Droogh). History: a...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1855/15

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HCA 32/1855/15
Date
1694
Description

Captured ship: Appelboom or Apple Tree (master Jan Michielsen Droogh).

History: a Norwegian merchant ship (38 lasts), bound from Kristiansand to La Rochelle, laden with deals, salt, handspikes, tobacco and pipestaves; taken on 1/11 January 1693/4, between Dover and Calais by the privateer Falmouth Sloop (Thomas Graves commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:-

  • [CP 1-CP 2]: interrogatories, five examinations;
  • [CP 3]: claim of Danish merchants for the ship and cargo;
  • [CP 4]: abstracts and translations of the four bundles of ship's papers [not here, but restoration seems unlikely].

[Decision: condemned, 5 February 1694]

Former reference
HCA 32/13, HCA 32/15, HCA 32/33
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17847561/

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