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Captured ship: St Nicholas of Altona (master Joachim Wrede). History: a Hamburg merchant...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1908/27

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This record is about the Captured ship: St Nicholas of Altona (master Joachim Wrede). History: a Hamburg merchant... dating from 1692 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 32/1908/27

Date

1692

Description

Captured ship: St Nicholas of Altona (master Joachim Wrede).

History: a Hamburg merchant ship (90 lasts, 2 guns) bound from Danzig to Lisbon, laden with wheat, rye, pipestaves, bottles, and deals; taken on 18/28 August 1692 near Dover by the privateer Expedition (James Johnson commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents –

Court Papers numbered CP 1-CP 39:

  • [CP 1-CP 2]: interrogatories, examinations;
  • [CP 3]: claim for the ship and cargo on behalf of the merchants in Altona and Danzig;
  • [CP 4]: attestations;
  • [CP 5-CP 6]: receipts or notes;
  • [CP 7]: examinations;
  • [CP 8]: allegation;
  • [CP 9-CP 11]: commission of appraisement, inventory and attestation;
  • [CP 13]: exhibit;
  • [CP 14-CP 15]: attestation and envelope;
  • [CP 16-CP 17]: interrogatories, attestation;
  • [CP 18-CP 25]: Legal proceedings taken on commission in Danzig, including commissions, depositions, allegations and envelopes.
  • [CP 26-CP 31]: Legal proceedings taken on commission in Hamburg, including examination and exhibits CP 26/1-CP 26/12 including commercial letters in French between Lisbon and Altona, a bill of lading, accounts, receipts and invoices; interrogatories; proxy; allegation; envelope; commission;
  • [CP 32-CP 37]: affidavit, two attestations in Dutch and translations in English, account;
  • [CP 38]: translation of a charter party;
  • [CP 39]: docket for the ship’s papers.

Ship’s papers numbered SP 1-SP 63:

  • SP 1-SP 37: six bills of lading, receipts, commercial letters, accounts, and invoices;
  • SP 38-SP 63: personal and commercial letters and envelopes to and from men and women written in French and Portuguese, sent as post between Danzig and Lisbon, including letters of a religious nature addressed to a reverend and one letter with samples of fabric.
[Decision: ship and cargo condemned 23 March 1693; appealed]

Note

Extra information added from IND 1/9013, p.396

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference

HCA 32/40, HCA 32/18, HCA 32/29, HCA 32/14, HCA 32/22

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English, French and Portuguese

Closure status

Open Document, Open Description

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18063666/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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