Captured ship: St Vincent of Brest (master Claude Riouallen of Le Conquet, otherwise...

Captured ship: St Vincent of Brest (master Claude Riouallen of Le Conquet, otherwise Rouallen; prize master David Derrickson of Rotterdam).

History: a French merchant ship (30 tons, 7 men when retaken), bound from Bordeaux to Calais, laden with French wines and prunes; taken on 17/27 January 1672/1673 off the Isle of Basse [Ile de Batz, Brittany], by the 17-gun Dutch privateer Prince William[otherwise Prins Willem] of Flushing (Bowden Johnson commanding, otherwise Boudewijn Joannissen) and sent in for Flushing, but was forced by contrary winds and shortage of provisions (after 8 days in possession of the prize) into the entrance of Plymouth Sound at Cawsand and was taken there at anchor by Mr Collier of Plymouth and brought into Plymouth [otherwise said to have been run ashore there]. The privateer removed some of the ships papers and other documents.

Court Papers, numbered CP 1-2:-

• [CP 1]: three examinations taken at Plymouth, 29 January 1672/1673;
• [CP 2]: annotated HCA wrapper, originally enclosing bills of lading.

Ships Papers, numbered SP 1-7:-

• SP 1: copy of Dutch privateering commission issued to Leendert Sonsbeecke and Jan Klijever for Boudewijn Joannissen to command and unnamed ship, 8 September 1672, copy dated in the frigate Prins Willem, 27 January 1673. annotated by Boudewijn Joannissen for his navigator Davit Dircksen to command the French prize 'Le Veijnsan' [St Vincent] of Brest.
• SP 2-7: thong originally with 6 papers (1 now loose) with 3 letters as well as a note in Dutch, plus a bill of lading in French for Vincent of Brest. Two of the Dutch letters are from the privateer captain, Boudewijn Joannissen, all for Flushing and dated aboard Prins Willem, 27-28 January 1673 (one noted as off the 'Ijle de Baes' [Ile de Batz]). Also another similar letter, in Dutch, for Veere.