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Prize Court

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  Posted by sisterrene (U14262211) on Friday, 15th January 2010

  I believe that the Prize Court was authorised to consider whether or not a ship could be lawfuly captured or siezed in the time of war.
  
  I have some information on someone I think was an ancestor Berend De Boer master mariner of the ship De Hoop - in an incident in 1781 - I wonder if anyone can help and tell me what exactly could have happened - would his ship been captured or would he have siezed another vessel
  
  The prize court was in London - so would the incident taken placein British waters?
  
  A strange sort of discussion subject but maybe there is an answer.
  
  Thank you so much. Irene

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  Posted by cloudyj (U1773646) on Friday, 15th January 2010

  The Prize Court also determined how much the prize money should be and often awarded less than captains thought it should.
  
  If the ship was captured in 1781 it was during the fourth Anglo-Dutch war.
  
  so would the incident taken placein British waters?Β 
  
  Possibly, but not not necessarily. Dutch ships could be siezed anywhere. The primary cause of the war was the Royal Navy searching Dutch ships suspected of smuggling arms to the American rebels. The Dutch insisted on their right to not be interfered with and tried to form a coalition to defend neutral shipping (other neutrals were also smuggling arms). Britain declared war.

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  Posted by sisterrene (U14262211) on Saturday, 16th January 2010

  Thank you friend for this precise answer - very interesting and informative. Kind of you to respond. Irene

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  Posted by Grumpyfred (U2228930) on Saturday, 16th January 2010

  If though a ship was taken as prize, the ruling stated that any warship within sight, could have been deemed as helping in the taking, just because the very sight of it could have led to the surrender, and thus that crew would be entitled to a share of the prize money. I am told that Prize Money was done away with during the Great War.
  
  GF

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  Posted by sisterrene (U14262211) on Saturday, 16th January 2010

  thank you - another bit of information for me to take in. Irenex

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