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Voyages and Prizes Amid Turmoil Across Oceans and Courts
Reports of ship captures and exchanges frame a wide Junto of maritime actions and diplomatic moves. Freed Privateers seize Judith Webber bound for Guadalupe while crews redeploy to Martinico, and British captains pursue rival routes to St Helena and China. Letters from Gibraltar gauge Franco-British tensions as Dutch shipboard incidents provoke memorials at The Hague. News of Guildhall prize draws, deaths, and harbour accidents accompanies stock market updates and European political reflections on Vienna, France, and the Holy Roman Empire. An English privateer prize from Leghorn to Sardinia underscores ongoing maritime hazards and economic distress abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judith
Webber
Brito
Guadalupe
Martinico
Thomas Hind
Coast
Bay
Francis' ‘Harris
Triton
St. Helena
China
Gibraltar
Milbank
Popham
Piressdia
Tetuan
Graystack
Eis
Graystock
Waar
Bian
Hague
Yorke
Gray Stock
France
Germany
Dublin
London
Guildhall
Thames Street
Robert Crampton
Brandymacesse Olave Street
Southwark
Meadows
Oxford
Haughtonftreet
Clare-market
Hackney
Moses Lamego
Poole
Dorfeithire
Almos
Yaft
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Leghorn
Stéphanelle
Scanderoon
Cyprus
Sardinia
Scheveningen
Coat of Holland
Jamaica
Castle-Court
Budge-Row
Richard Janeway
Fisher
Shadwell
Deal
Teed
Christen
Snall