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Captured ship: Fortune of Ostend (master Anthony van Bysem of Saventem [near Brussels],...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1947/13

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This record is about the Captured ship: Fortune of Ostend (master Anthony van Bysem of Saventem [near Brussels],... dating from [1673 Oct 11] 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 32/1947/13
Date
[1673 Oct 11]
Description

Captured ship: Fortune of Ostend (master Anthony van Bysem of Saventem [near Brussels], otherwise Anthoni van Besen, Anthoine van Bijse [Anthony van Beeson, Bason]).

History: a Flemish (Southern Netherlands) fishing vessel (dogger or small ketch, 6 lasts, formerly the English ship Adventure of Yarmouth); [taken (before 11/21 October 1673) by HMS Portsmouth pink (Thomas Binning of Bynning commanding) and brought into Yarmouth].

Documents:- abstract, 6 ship's papers in Dutch, numbered 1-6. Numbering here follows the Court scheme. 1-4 on thong, 6 used as a HCA wrapper:

Court Papers, numbered CP 1- :-

  • [CP 1]: abstract of she six ship's papers.

Ships Papers, numbered SP 1-6:-

  • SP 1: Ostend burger-brief, 5 April 1673;
  • SP 2: Ostend seabrief, 5 April 1673;
  • SP 3-SP 6: four Ostend passes; the latest, no 6 dated 25 August 1673 was also used as a wrapper; some also wrongly endorsed St Peter (one erased)]. ;

Extra information:-

  • see IND 1/9012, f.26v: ship and lading condemned 16 February 1673/4;
  • see also HCA 30/882, p. 63: 6 papers received early November 1673.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
HCA 30/652/14
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Dutch and English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18538006/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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