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Appellant: Sidney Halsey of Yarmouth, master, and the owners and crew of the smack...
Catalogue reference: PCAP 1/226
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This record is about the Appellant: Sidney Halsey of Yarmouth, master, and the owners and crew of the smack... dating from 1857-1858 in the series Registrar of Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Causes of the Judicial Committee of the.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1857-1858
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Appellant: Sidney Halsey of Yarmouth, master, and the owners and crew of the smack Intrepid. Respondent: William Verwey Albertuszen of Amsterdam, owner of the galliot De Jonge Andries, and Messrs Clark, Morgan and Co of Archangel, Russia, owners of her cargo. Subject: Salvage of the De Jonge Andries. Lower Court: High Court of Admiralty of England.
See also: PCAP 3/24
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- Open Document, Open Description
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