Catalogue description Captured ship: Dorothea Sophia of Stettin (master Peter Ketelhut). History: a Prussian...

Captured ship: Dorothea Sophia of Stettin (master Peter Ketelhut).

History: a Prussian merchant ship (10 men, and 2 passengers who had been rescued from a sinking English ship the Falcon of Falmouth, taken as a prize by L'Esperance of San Sebastian), bound from Bordeaux to Rotterdam, laden with wine, vinegar, brandy, prunes, sugar, coffee, paper, cork and chestnuts; taken on 30 November/11 December 1744 between Dover and Dungeness, by the privateer Eagle Snow (John Bazely commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 7]: standing interrogatories, five examinations, commissioners' affidavit, 4 December 1744;
• [CP 8-CP 11]: standing interrogatories, two examinations, commissioners' affidavit, 17 December 1744;
• [CP 12-CP 11]: standing interrogatories, one examination, commissioners' affidavit, 31 December 1744;
• [CP 12-CP 17]: 6 attestations and claims on behalf of Dutch merchants, January-February 1747;
• [CP 18]: attestation of the master, April 1745;
• [CP 19 -CP 23]: 5 sets of attestations, affidavits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Rotterdam, and brought into court in April 1745;
• [CP 26-CP 30]: 5 sets of attestations, affidavits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Rotterdam and Brussels, and brought into court in April and May 1745;
• [CP 31]: allegation, May 1745;
• [CP 32-CP 34]: claims and attestations from Rotterdam and Cork, June 1745;
• [CP 35-CP 38]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and two translations of the 63 ship's papers [which were restored].

[Decision: part of the cargo condemned, the ship and the rest of the cargo restored as neutral, 9 May 1746]