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Captured ship: Graf Bernstorff (master Gert Belmer, supercargo Willem Charles Van...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/762
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This record is about the Captured ship: Graf Bernstorff (master Gert Belmer, supercargo Willem Charles Van... dating from 1795-1798 in the series High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 30/762
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1795-1798
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: Graf Bernstorff (master Gert Belmer, supercargo Willem Charles Van Braam).
History: [a Danish East Indiaman chartered in Batavia (as larger than the previous Johanna on which the outbound voyage was made), and bound from Batavia to Copenhagen, via the Cape, laden with sugar, coffee, sappan wood and rattan; came into St Helen's Roads, Isle of Wight on 13 February 1799, after suffering damage, and was seized by HMS Seine (David Milne commanding) under suspicion of being Dutch].
Documents: mail in transit, with packets or envelopes opened and numbered by the court 'No 515' - 'No 716', followed by a, b, c etc:-
- Private and business letters carried on the Graaf Bernsdorff from Batavia and the Cape of Good Hope, for onward delivery to Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Texel, Delft etc.
- Nos. 692 and 712 are bundles of Dutch East India Company papers from Batavia.
- Two unnumbered letters from Ameelia Adams at the Cape to her family in Delft; now numbered [716 ii]; these may be a stray from another ship coming from the Cape.
Letters with the following numbers are not here: 520, 529, 533-4, 538, 544, 546-54, 558, 563, 566-71, 574-76, 578, 580-81, 583-84, 586, 589, 592, 594, 596, 598-600, 605-06, 608, 614-17, 619, 622, 626, 630-31, 636, 641-43, 644 (envelope only is present), 645, 647, 650, 653, 660-62, 664-67, 669-70, 675-77. 682-83, 690-691, 693-96, 698-99, 701-3, 705, 707, 709-11, 713-15.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Re-catalogued to this level of detail in 2017
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Miscellaneous
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4249708/
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HCA 30
High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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