Catalogue description Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of the Bahamas. Captured ship: Oscar...

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Details of HCA 45/69/24
Reference: HCA 45/69/24
Description:

Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of the Bahamas.

Captured ship: Oscar (master Johan Anthon Wolcky).

Nationality: Swedish.

History: bound from Newport, Rhode Island to Havana, laden with beef, pork, flour, soap, lard and butter; taken by the privateers Brilliant (William Smith commanding) and Dash (John Pinder commanding), and brought into Nassau.

Appellant: 1) The captors.

Respondent: The master for the ship on behalf of himself; and Frederick Richard Thorbeck, supercargo for the cargo on behalf of Messrs Unse Wetter and Co of Gottenberg, all Swedish subjects; and cross-suit between the same parties.

Bound printed appeal with manuscript decree of 7 March 1816 (folios 341-365).

Decision: against the appeal of the captors.

Folios 341-346: case on behalf of the captors and appellants; Folio 346: decree; Folios 347-351: case on behalf of the claimants; Folios 352-365: appendix
Date: 1816
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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