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No 67. Captured ship: Rumblepot [ Rommelpot ?] of Flushing, otherwise Rumber (commander...

Catalogue reference: HCA 24/147/67

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This record is about the No 67. Captured ship: Rumblepot [ Rommelpot ?] of Flushing, otherwise Rumber (commander... dating from 1673 Aug 6 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 24/147/67
Date
1673 Aug 6
Description

No 67.

Captured ship: Rumblepot [Rommelpot ?] of Flushing, otherwise Rumber (commander Joor Cornelissen, otherwise Cornelisz).

History: a Dutch privateer (galliot hoy, 100 tons, built in Holland), bound on a cruise from Flushing; taken in June on 24 March/3 April 1673 after running ashore at Folkestone in a 2-hour boarding action, following a chase and 2-hour fight in the Dover Strait, by the privateer John of Dover (John Steele commanding) and brought into Dover.

Allegation (6 August 1673) in Steele (now deceased) v The Rumblepot.

See also HCA 32/1952/8.

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Language
English
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Open Document, Open Description
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