Catalogue description Captured ship: Graf Bernstorff (master Gert Belmer, supercargo Willem Charles Van...
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Reference: | HCA 30/762 |
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Description: |
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:-
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. |
Note: | Re-catalogued to this level of detail in 2017 |
Date: | 1795-1798 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | Miscellaneous |
Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
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