Captured ship: Diamond of London (James Clarke master). [D1169].
History: an English slave ship, trading from London to Guinea to Havana, taken on the return voyage from Cuba by the French privateer Bellona and retaken by HMS Goliath, August 1803.
Documents: Administrative books the Dutch West India Company and successors for the establishment (including slaves) in Dutch West Africa [Dutch Guinea or Dutch Gold Coast, now Ghana]. Dutch establishment at Elmina etc, as follows:-
1. 23 small booklets of musters, establishment lists, extracts of accounts, and 2 bundles of letters, [now numbered 1-25], 1794
2. 28 small booklets of musters, establishment lists, extracts of accounts, and 1 bundle of letters [now numbered 1-29], 1795
3. General Plan, 1795.
4. General muster roll for [Dutch] Guinea, 1797.
5. General muster roll for [Dutch] Guinea, 1798.
6. General muster roll for [Dutch] Guinea, 1799.
[7 - 10: misplaced documents from other ships, moved out in 2014].