Catalogue description High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: De Snelle Jaager of Amsterdam otherwise El...

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Details of HCA 32/452/16
Reference: HCA 32/452/16
Description:

High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: De Snelle Jaager of Amsterdam otherwise El Casador Velos (master Caarl Christiaan Bünsow).

History: a Dutch merchant ship (250 tons, 5 guns, 13 men), bound from Cadiz to Ostend, laden with brandy, wine, raisins, figs, cochineal, wool, indigo; taken on 30 December 1780 about 7 leagues SSW of the Lizard, Cornwall. by the privateers Garland (Richard Gambell commanding) and Good Intent (Sharrock Jenking commanding), and brought into Plymouth.

Court papers: 1-119; Ship's papers: 120-163.

[These are interim paper numbers, and are likely to change once more fully catalogued].
Date: 1780
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HCA 32/452/16/1-163
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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