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Captured ship: Turnip or Raap of Middelburg, otherwise Raap (commander Jacobus Michaelson...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1953/19

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This record is about the Captured ship: Turnip or Raap of Middelburg, otherwise Raap (commander Jacobus Michaelson... dating from 1674 Feb 10 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HCA 32/1953/19
Date
1674 Feb 10
Description

Captured ship: Turnip or Raap of Middelburg, otherwise Raap (commander Jacobus Michaelson Pitran of Flushing)

History: a Dutch privateer (30 tons, built at Middelburg), bound on a cruise from [Middelburg?]; which on 8/18 February 1673/1674 took the English merchant ship Speedwell of Millbrook (20 tons), bound from Falmouth to Plymouth, laden with tin, and transferred the tin aboard; taken on 10/20 February 1673/1674 about 6 leagues west of Plymouth by HMS Pearl (Thomas Booth commanding), and brought into Plymouth on 11/21 February 1673/1674.

Court Papers, numbered CP 1-6:-

  • [CP 1]: standing interrogatories;
  • [CP 2]: two examinations taken at Plymouth, 14 February 1673/4;
  • [CP 3-CP 6: four affidavits concerning the tin taken out of the privateer by HMS Pearl, which the privateer had taken out of her prize the barge Speedwell of Millbrook:
    • [CP 3]: affidavit of Daniel Barker, 23 December 1674;
    • [CP 4]: affidavit ofCharles Thorold, 4 January 1674/1675;
    • [CP 5]: affidavit ofThomas Vernon, 15 January 1674/1675;
    • [CP 6]: affidavit ofThomas Pilkington, 5 March 1674/1675.

Extra information:- see also HCA 32/1953/20 Speedwell of Millbrook

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
HCA 32/7/91; HCA 32/7/97; HCA 32/9/113
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C21119971/

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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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