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Captured ship: a galliot hoy [name unknown] (master Frans Jacobsen of Harlingen)....

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1947/16

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This record is about the Captured ship: a galliot hoy [name unknown] (master Frans Jacobsen of Harlingen).... dating from 1673 Apr 13 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 32/1947/16
Date
1673 Apr 13
Description

Captured ship: a galliot hoy [name unknown] (master Frans Jacobsen of Harlingen).

History: a Dutch merchant ship (galliot hoy, 30 tons), laden with brick and tile; abandoned by her crew after a chase from off Heligoland, and taken on 13/23 April 1673 off Borcum, East Frisia / Ostfriesland by the [privateer] Norfolk (John Sparrow commanding) and brought into Leith, Scotland.

Court Papers, numbered CP 1-2:-

  • [CP 1]: four examinations taken at Leith, 14 May 1673;
  • [CP 2]: HCA wrapper, numbered by Court as CM 26;

Ships Papers, numbered SP 1-25 [numbered by HCA clerk: CM1-26. The numbering here follows this scheme (except for the wrapper CM 26, see CP 2 above).

  • SP 1 -SP 25: ship's papers, and notes, over several years.

Extra information:-

  • The archive of ship's papers shows that she had traded for some years between Harlingen and Amsterdam, Alkmaar, Edam and the 'Klein Oost' - the Jutland peninsula and the far west of the Baltic;
  • See IND 1/9012, f.30v: ship and lading condemned 12 August 1673.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
HCA 32/9/82; HCA 30/228/3
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Danish, English and German
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18538009/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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