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No 64. Captured ship: Vrede or Peace (master [commander] Cornelius Jansen Slooger...

Catalogue reference: HCA 24/147/64

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This record is about the No 64. Captured ship: Vrede or Peace (master [commander] Cornelius Jansen Slooger... dating from [1674 Dec 9] in the series High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Files of Libels, Allegations,.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HCA 24/147/64
Date
[1674 Dec 9]
Description

No 64.

Captured ship: Vrede or Peace (master [commander] Cornelius Jansen Slooger or Slogar). History: a Dutch privateer (150 tons, 22 guns, bound on a cruise) OR a merchant ship; taken on 10/20 October 1673 in the West Indies by HMS Portland (George Canning commanding), and sold at Jamaica.

Allegation [no date, endorsed by HCA as received 9 December 1674.

The Vrede, 'is a merchants shippe belonging to Amsterdam'. On this voyage, ship was not a privateer and not intending as a privateer, but on a merchant design. Although she had a privateering commission from the Prince of Orange, she was not relinquishing or hindering her merchant voyage. In the late war it was usual for both the English and Dutch in merchant voyages to the East Indies and other parts to take 'commissions of marte or warre' [privateering commissions] from their governments, 'and yett such shippes were not accompted or looked upon to be private men of warre' by either side. On the British side, these ships were not and should not be condemned to the person of those captors in the King's service, but to the King himself [as droits]

See also: HCA 32/1951/7; HCA 24/147/63; HCA 24/147/65; HCA 24/147/66.

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Legal status
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Language
English
Closure status
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