The Prize Papers are documents seized by British navy and privateers from enemy ships in the period 1652-1815. The documents contain ship’s journals, lists of cargo, accounts, plantation lists and interrogations of crew members, business- and private letters. Read more
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The papers are kept in the archive of the High Court of Admiralty in The National Archives in Kew (London). Approximately a quarter of the Prize Papers originates from Dutch ships. Read more
Photo: Erik van der Doe / Metamorfoze
