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No 47. Captured ship: Mayboom or Meiboom of Amsterdam (master Huybert Johnson [or...

Catalogue reference: HCA 24/147/47

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HCA 24/147/47
Date
1672 Apr 19
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No 47.

Captured ship: Mayboom or Meiboom of Amsterdam (master Huybert Johnson [or John Rasier]).

History: a Dutch merchant ship ([200 tons]), [bound from the West Indies to Amsterdam], [laden with campeche wood, logwood, sugar, elephants' teeth, cotton, indigo, copper, ginger and silver, at least 4000 pieces of eight in 7 hogsheads]; taken in [late] March 1672 by HMS Newcastle (Anthony Langstone commanding) and brought into Plymouth.

Allegation, 19 April 1672, in Langstone v The Mayboom. (Specifies date of declaration of war, 28 March 1672, but gives no exact date other than ship was taken in March 1672.)

Extra information:-

  • See Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1671-1672, pp.258, 269, 271; SP 29/304 no. 169 (Philip Lanyon, 31 March 1672); SP 29/305 no 22 (Philip Lanyon, 2 April 1672); SP 29/323 no 126 (John Skelton, 2 April 1672).
  • See IND 1/9012 f.53: condemned 19 April 1672.

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