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Captured ship: Arms of Denmark or Wapen Van Denemarken (master Jan Thomasa Huxbrow)....

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1855/22

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This record is about the Captured ship: Arms of Denmark or Wapen Van Denemarken (master Jan Thomasa Huxbrow).... dating from 1692 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers.

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Reference
HCA 32/1855/22
Date
1692
Description

Captured ship: Arms of Denmark or Wapen Van Denemarken (master Jan Thomasa Huxbrow).

History: a Danish Norwegian ship (300 tons), bound from Copperwick [Kopervik in Norway] to La Rochelle, laden with deal boards; taken on 25 November / 5 December 1692 about 4 leagues from Dover by the privateer Experiment (John Powell commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 2]: standing interrogatories, four examinations;
  • [CP 3]: claim of the master and Jan Elias of Copenhagen for the ship and cargo;
  • [CP 4]: allegation;
  • [CP 5]: attestation as to papers.

Ship’s Papers numbered SP 1-SP 5, letters and receipts.

[Decision: restored, 12 January 1692/93]

Former department reference
HCA 32/15, HCA 32/33
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Danish and English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17847568/

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