Prize Papers, for ships beginning with T. Captured ship: Three Sailmakers of Stockholm...

Prize Papers, for ships beginning with T.

Captured ship: Three Sailmakers of Stockholm (master Peter Sandt).

History: a Swedish merchant ship (200 tons) bound from Bordeaux to Stockholm or Stade, laden with prunes, brandy, molasses, wine, and planks; taken on 4/14 July 1697 off Ushant by HMS Expedition (James Stewart commanding), part of Admiral Rooke's Squadron, as the ship was sailing as part of a convoy with the Rainbow, Bunch of Grapes, Fame, King David, and North Star, all of which were brought into Plymouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers numbered CP 1-CP 20:

• [CP 1-CP 2]: four examinations;
• [CP 3]: affidavit detailing the ship's papers taken;
• [CP 4]: claim to the ship and cargo on behalf of merchants in Stockholm;
• [CP 5-CP 6]: allegation, interrogatories;
• [CP 7-CP 9]: three sets of abstracts and translations, corresponding to the three bundles of ship's papers;
• [CP 10-CP 20]: dockets and wrapers for the bundles of ship's papers.

Ship’s Papers in three bundles numbered SP 1/10-SP 1/21 [SP 1/1-SP 1/9 not here], SP 2/1-SP 2/70, SP 3/1-SP 3/53, along with a final bundle containing the large personal archive of Johan Conrad Doberick, numbered A 1a-A294:

• Bundle 1, SP 1/10-SP 1/21, mixed ship's papers:
  • SP 1/10-SP 1/11: customs paper issued at Balye, list of barrels received with merchant marks;
  • SP 1/12-SP 1/21: bills of lading;
• Bundle 2, SP 2/1-SP 2/70, papers that Conrad Doberick 'did swear did belong to him', which include many papers relating to the St Paul (Cornelius Paulsen master), 1695-1697:
  • SP 2/1: a printed map of Europe attributed to Frederick de Witt Nova et Accurate divisa in Regna et Regiones praecipuas Europae Descriptio, with correspondents in various ports listed in Dutch on the reverse;
  • SP 2/2-SP 2/3F: list of damage done to the ship St Paul (Cornelius Paulsen master) for insurance purposes, bills for taylors, a lawyer and charges for a horse;
  • SP 2/4A-SP 2/8: commercial letters from Joachim Schmidt at St Matin and Cornelius Paulsen at Bordeaux to Doberick, bill of lading, memorandom relating to reams of paper, bond of arbitration, 1697;
  • SP 2/9-SP 2/15: accounts, receipts, invoices, and a sea protest, 1696-1697;
  • SP 2/16-SP 2/24: commercial letters from Doberick, J. Roselius, Daniel Denis & Company, and Anders Holstein to Paulsen at San Sebastian, 1695;
  • SP 2/25-2/34: bills of exchange issued at Bayonne, cargo lists, customs paper, invoice, accounts of debts;
  • SP 2/35-SP 2/45: draft letter mentioning a ship 'plundered by the Biscayners', letter of attorney from the owners of the St Paul, letter of recommendation and written permission from Gaspar Sanches Depando, registry extract, accounts of interest and charges, bill of lading;
  • SP 2/46-SP 2/55: ship's pass, customs papers, registry extract, invoice, accounts;
  • SP 2/56-SP 2/2/70: recommendation letter for Doberick from the Spansh Ambassador in the Hague, copy letter from Charles XI of Sweden requesting the release of the Fortune (Albert Lutgens master) taken by a Spanish privateer, accounts, invoices, bills of lading, ship's pass
• Bundle 3, SP 3/1-SP 3/53, the archives of the master Peter Sandt, 1695-1697:
  • SP 3/1-SP 3/10 : ship's pass, letters relating to cargo and the ship's voyage from Olof Hansen Brun, Dirick Wagenknecht, Lars Jacobsen to Peter Sandt, receipt for provisions and pilotage, cocket, certificate, blank bills of bottomry;
  • SP 3/11-SP 3/20: a long personal letter from Peter Sandt's monther, receipts, certificate, attestations, memorandom of clothes in a coffer belonging to"NB"
  • SP 3/21-SP 3/30: a lengthy description of the life and conversation of Joren Sorenson Sandy, shipbuilder, sea protests, customs paper, accounts, commercial letters from Anders Kruese, Bengt Anderson, and N. Piecour to Peter Sandt;
  • SP 3/31-SP 3/40: sea protest, charterparty, receipts, certificates, accounts;
  • SP 3/41-SP 3/53: commercial letters from Piercour, P. Van Den Brande, Lars Swart to Peter Sandt, receipts, accounts, customs paper.
• Bundle 4, A 1a-A 294, the personal archive of Johan (Jan) Conrad Doberick: a very large collection of papers sent to Doberisk in 1696-1697 from correspondents in Lübeck, Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Stockholm, La Rochelle, Dunkirk, Rouen, Riga, Bayonne, Lisbon, Nantes, San Sebastian, Morlaix, Hamburg, Bilbao, and St Martin, mixed with some accounts and price lists.

[Decision: ship and cargo restored, 22 September 1697].