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V5958. Contested cause. Captured ship: Vrouw Elisabeth (master Petrus Fransiscus...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1697
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This record is about the V5958. Contested cause. Captured ship: Vrouw Elisabeth (master Petrus Fransiscus... dating from 1803 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 32/1697
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1803
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Description (What the record is about)
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V5958. Contested cause.
Captured ship: Vrouw Elisabeth (master Petrus Fransiscus Gerbrandts, who replaced Sijbrand Rinties, deceased, at Batavia).
History: a Dutch ship bound from Batavia via the Cape of Good Hope to Amsterdam, laden with sugar, china, chintz, cotton, pepper, coffee, dragons blood, Japan roquelos, arrack, tamarinds, indigo, gum, cloves, camphor, cinnamon and sappan wood; taken on 30 May 1803 (under the embargo) off Start Point by HMS Boadicea (John Maitland commanding) and brought into Plymouth.
Documents: renumbered 1-390 in one sequence throughout, respecting the order of the separate bundles of papers which had been numbered in different sequences of black or red ink after capture. The ship was carrying papers relating to several Dutch naval ships as mail in transit, as well as personal and official letters from Batavia and the Cape.
- 1-5: Court papers, including depositions taken at Plymouth on 11 July 1803 (1803-1804).
- 6-27: Master's papers, including a printed treaty with Morocco, 1719 (1719-1803).
- 28-76: Mail in transit from Batavia.
- 77-86: Mail in transit from the Cape to the Dutch Navy pay office (ship's papers of the Spion).
- 87-113: Mail in transit from the Cape to the Dutch Navy pay office (ship's papers of the Kortenaar).
- 114-143: Mail in transit from the Cape to the Dutch Navy pay office (ship's papers of the Pluto).
- 144-156: Mail in transit from the Cape (Dutch navy papers).
- 157-161: Mail in transit.
- 162-186: Personal archive of Conrad Friedrich Loberecht Thuermer or Thürmer (chief clerk of Dutch navy ships ), 1779-1801.
- Includes Thuermer's university and professional certificates (mathematics degree, certificate as notary), and a small blank ivory plaque (broken).
- Ships on which Thuermer served: (Dutch East India Company) Delft (1793), and Hertog van Brunswijk (1796); and (Dutch navy), Medemblik (1796-1797).
- 187-197: Vrouw Elisabeth, ship's papers 1797-1802.
- 198-259: Mail in transit from the Cape, February 1803.
- 260-296: Mail in transit from the Cape, February 1803.
- 297-333: Mixed papers, 1791-1802. Includes material relating to the Dutch navy ships Athalante, Brakel, and (principally) Medemblik.
- 334-380: Mixed papers, 1794-1796; 1801. Includes material relating to the Dutch navy ships Athalante and (principally) Medemblik.
- 381-387: Navy papers of Lucas ten Brink, chief surgeon of the Dutch navy frigate Athalante, 1800-1801.
- 381 a small muster book listing and numbering the ship's company;
- 382 a day book with detailed observations of his patients, 1800-1801;
- 383 a strand of seaweed, kept inside 382;
- 384 Lucas ten Brink's journal as a naval surgeon: a large bound volume, giving the ship's company of the Athalante numbered (as in 381), with detailed medical observations on those who were his patients, 1800-1801 (folios 1-99, rest blank), endorsed (by HCA) as [taken from] the Vrouw Elisabeth;
- 385-387 papers inserted in 384.
- 388-390: wrappers.
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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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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Bundle 80/5958
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- 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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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4251460/
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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