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No 66. Captured ship: Vrede or Peace (master [commander] Cornelius Jansen Slooger...

Catalogue reference: HCA 24/147/66

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This record is about the No 66. Captured ship: Vrede or Peace (master [commander] Cornelius Jansen Slooger... dating from 1674-1675 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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Reference
HCA 24/147/66
Date
1674-1675
Description

No 66.

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).

The Vrede is a ship of 150 tons and had 22 guns when taken by HMS Portland (Canning commanding), was fitted and manned as a privateer, not as a merchant ship, and was ready to fight. Before capture (whilst in a creek to careen and refit), the Vrede had been cruising as a privateer on the coasts of Jamaica and Campeche for several months 'under the colors of the States of Holland' and had taken several ships belonging to subjects of England.

The Vrede had the Prince of Orange's commission aboard, but no papers concerning a trading voyage. No goods were aboard at capture other than those taken from her English prizes. Depositions given that the ship was on a trading voyage are false. Moreover, the King states that no subjects of 'the States of Holland' have been allowed cut wood at Campeche by the English, who have had possession for the last 7 years, and that privateers taken by HM ships should be given to the captor commander and crew.

See also: HCA 32/1951/7; HCA 24/147/63; HCA 24/147/64; HCA 24/147/65.

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C21119749/

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