Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we're still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

Item

Captured ship: Thomas and Joan of Cork (master William Hardin; prize master Job Cornelis...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1953/13

What’s it about?

This record is about the Captured ship: Thomas and Joan of Cork (master William Hardin; prize master Job Cornelis... dating from 1673 Mar 31 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

Access information is unavailable

Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.

Full description and record details

Reference
HCA 32/1953/13
Date
1673 Mar 31
Description

Captured ship: Thomas and Joan of Cork (master William Hardin; prize master Job Cornelis of Rotterdam)

History: an Irish merchant ship (30-40 tons, unarmed, 6 prize crew and 3 prisoners when retaken; built in Ireland), bound from Bordeaux to Cork, laden with French wine and brandy; taken on 30 March/9 April 1673 about 40 leagues west of Scilly by the 18-gun Dutch privateer Flushing Frigot (Andreas Master commanding) and sent in for Flushing; retaken on 31 March/10 April about 25 leagues west of Scilly by HMS Resolution (John Berry commanding) and brought into Plymouth on 2/12 April 1673. The prize master tore up his copy of the privateering commission and threw it overboard when the ship was retaken.

Court Papers, numbered CP 1-5:-

  • [CP 1]: standing interrogatories;
  • [CP 2]: one examination taken at Plymouth, 9 April 1673;
  • [CP 3]: two examinations taken at Plymouth, 9 April 1673;
  • [CP 4]: commission, 22 April 1673;
  • [CP 5]: appraisement made at Plymouth in April 1673

Extra information: IND 1/9012 f.83: ship and lading restored 26 May 1673 on payment of an eighth part of the salvage.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
HCA 32/1/81; HCA 32/9/80
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C21119965/

Series information

HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

See the series level description for more information about this record.

View series description

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

109,109 records

Within the department: HCA

Records of the High Court of Admiralty and colonial Vice-Admiralty courts

37,247 records

Within the series: HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

21 records

Within the piece: HCA 32/1953

Ships captured in the Third Anglo-Dutch War, with names beginning S-T. (Described...

You are currently looking at the item: HCA 32/1953/13

Captured ship: Thomas and Joan of Cork (master William Hardin; prize master Job Cornelis...

Related records

Records that share similar topics with this record.