Captured ship: Hercules of Yarmouth (master [Thomas Ingram]; prize master unknown)....

Captured ship: Hercules of Yarmouth (master [Thomas Ingram]; prize master unknown).

History: an English merchant ship ([80] tons), bound from Newcastle upon Tyne to [London], laden with coal; taken [off the Dogger Bank] (one of 3 prizes taken by the captor at that time) about 5 pm on 3/13 October 1672 by the 6-gun Dutch privateer Maria of Amsterdam [otherwise Maria Virgin Mother] (Jede Pytterson Soet commanding), and sent in for a Dutch port; retaken about 9 am on 4/14 October 1672 about 10 leagues off the Brill by HMS Crown (Richard Sadlington commanding) and brought into Hull on 10/20 October. [The copy of the Dutch privateering commission was kept aboard HMS Crown. One of the 2 other prizes was also retaken, but afterwards foundered in a storm. The privateer and the third prize escaped. The Hercules was very leaky and in danger of loss on the passage to Hull.

Court Papers, numbered CP 1:-

• [CP 1]: commission, two examinations taken at Hull, 12 October 1672 (plus partial copy of standing interrogatories);

Extra information:-

• See IND 1/9012, f.34: restored on payment of salvage, 4 November 1672;
• For the extra capture, captor and recapture details above, see SP 29/316, no. 132 and Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1672, pp. 46-47 (William Griffith to Williamson, 14 October 1672). (This is the source naming the master.) Ordered to be discharged, 18 November 1672. See SP 29/318, no. 134 and Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1672, p.237 (William Griffith to Williamson, 2 December 1672).]