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Ship's name(s): Paarl; Lam; Dolfijn; Ganges; Maasstroom, Ceres Nationality: Dutch...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/721
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- HCA 30/721
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1771-1780
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Description (What the record is about)
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Ship's name(s): Paarl; Lam; Dolfijn; Ganges; Maasstroom, Ceres
Nationality: Dutch
Type of voyage: East India Company
Particulars: Journals of Het Lam from the Netherlands to Batavia, 1770, the Dofijn, Texel to Batavia, 1779, De Paarl, Batavia to China, 1780, De Ganges, Texel to China via Batavia, 1776, Ceres, China to Netherlands, 1774/1775; all these journals are by Dirk Cornelis Plokker; journal of the Maasstroom, Suriname to Netherlands, 1779; journals of the English ship Patriarch and a Danish ship; copy of Groote Christelyke Scheepvaart (Amsterdam 1776) by Adam Westerman.
35 letters (wrongly placed here) from the Batavier, bound from St Eustatius to the Netherlands, 1781, were added to HCA 32/277/8 in 2021.
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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 and English
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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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