Catalogue description Captured ship: Die Stadt von Wismar (master Jochim Haker). History: a Swedish ship (360...

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Details of HCA 32/152/21
Reference: HCA 32/152/21
Description:

Captured ship: Die Stadt von Wismar (master Jochim Haker).

History: a Swedish ship (360 tons, 20 men and a boy), bound from Malaga to Hamburg, laden with raisins, oranges, lemons, anchovies and straw mats; taken on 1/12 March 1748 off Dungeness by the privateers Prosperous (Soloman Currier commanding) and Penrice (Richard Keys commanding), and brought into the Downs.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: attestation and claim;
  • [CP 7-CP 8]: schedule of goods, attestation;
  • [CP 9-CP 13]: 4 sets of attestations, affidavits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Hamburg and Altona;
  • [CP 14-CP 16]: attestation as to papers, translation of the ship's muster roll, and abstracts and translations of the 75 ship's papers in Dutch, Swedish and German.

Ships Papers numbered SP 42 and SP 47 (all the rest were restored).

[Decision: part of cargo condemned, the ship and rest of the cargo restored, 20 May 1748]
Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1748
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Dutch, English and German
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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