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In Part 1: Ship's name(s): Fort Zeelandia ; Spanbroik ; Nationality: Dutch Port(s)...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/227
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- HCA 30/227
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1672
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Description (What the record is about)
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In Part 1:
Ship's name(s): Fort Zeelandia; Spanbroik;
Nationality: Dutch
Port(s) of departure: Suriname
Destination(s): Flushing
Type of voyage: Caribbean
Particulars: Captain Cornelis Bastiaensz (mainly letters from his ship Fort Zeelandia); letters from the ship Poelwijk (?Dutch East Indiaman) written in San Iago etc.
In Part 2
Ship's name(s): Fort Zeelandia; Bijenkorf; Anna
Nationality: Dutch
Port(s) of departure: Paramaribo
Destination(s): Flushing
Type of voyage: Caribbean
Particulars: Ship's journal of the Aardenburg from Flushing to Suriname, 1671; many private letters
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- This piece is included in the HCA Prize Papers sorting and cataloguing project, and is not available to order. Please ask a member of staff to contact the Prize Papers team to arrange access to it
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Dutch
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 30
High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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