No 11. Captured ship: Golden Crown of Stockholm (master Claes Hendrickson Bonny of...

No 11.

Captured ship: Golden Crown of Stockholm (master Claes Hendrickson Bonny of Zaandam, otherwise Claus Boney; [prize master not named]).

History: a Swedish merchant ship (yacht, 108 lasts, 12 men, built in Finland, bought 4 months previously), bound from Stockholm to Amsterdam, laden with tar, pitch, nails and timber; taken an hour and a half after dawn about 16/26 January 1673/1674, mid-way between the Dogger Bank and the Dutch coast, by a French privateer; retaken in the evening of 20/30 January 1673/1674, by a Dutch privateer, but about 6 hours later became stranded at Eccles on Sea, Norfolk, and brought into Great Yarmouth.

Allegation and claim, 26 June 1674, of Bartell Rooth, Martin Bonge and Claes Wilkins and Co, merchants of Stockholm and Directors of the Tar Company, for tar, pitch, nails and planking, bound for Amsterdam, of which a specified amount was for their factors (one Swedish, the other of Hamburg, named).

Date of capture by French privateer given as about sunrise on 13/23 January 1673/1674; the captor put the master in prison at Calais. Weeks later he was released on intervention of the Swedish Resident. Coming to England, the master discovered that Sander Davison, carpenter of the ship, had posed as the master and sworn falsely concerning the cargo.

Extra information: see HCA 32/1947/18.