Catalogue description Captured ship: Graf Bernstorff (master Gert Belmer, supercargo Willem Charles Van...

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Details of HCA 30/762
Reference: HCA 30/762
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:-

  • 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.

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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