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HCA 13/71 f.249v Annotate
First transcribed 26 September 2012  +
First transcriber Jill Wilcox  +
Folio 249  +
Parent volume HCA 13/71  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 26/09/2012  +
Transcription to the 3: 4th 5th and 6th article of the sto the 3: 4th 5th and 6th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that<br /> the sayd shipp having soe taken in her sayd ladeing of Tobaccoe<br /> at Bermudas and Virginia the arlate ffrederick Johnson and company<br /> Mariners of the sayd shipp whereof this deponent was one sett sayle<br /> with the sayd shipp and her sayd ladeing of Tobaccoe from James<br /> River in Virginia from or about the 27th day of the moneth of January 1655 English<br /> style bounds for London and saith that upon or about the first<br /> day of ffebruary last in the morning the sayd shipp being with her<br /> sayd Lading in her course for London and about the latitude of<br /> thirty seaven degrees and a halfe and about ninety leagues to the<br /> Eastwards of Virginia was surprized with an exceeding great<br /> tempest the winds Blowing at west North west or thereabouts<br /> with great furie and the sayd tempest continueing for fower or<br /> fives dayes togeather the violence thereof drove in great seas into<br /> the sayd shipp which raked her both fore and afte and split<br /> and staved her longe boate all to peeces and breake the head of<br /> her Rudder short off and soe brake the Iron works thereof that the<br /> Rudder hung loose and was in continuall danger to bee wholly<br /> torne off and carried away from the sayd shipp and the violence of<br /> the sayd storme alsoe broke downe of the the waste of the<br /> sayd shipp on both sides and brake some of her timbers and the<br /> sea ran violently into the sayd shipps hold and other parts of<br /> her and amongst her goods and ladeing of her to the great<br /> perill of the lives of the sayd shipps company and eminent<br /> danger of the losse of the sayd shipp and goods not withstanding<br /> the sayd shipps company did use all possible meanes to<br /> preserve them selves their sayd shipp and ladeing and did<br /> presently after the sayd Rudder heads and Iron worke was broken<br /> hange out men in roapes over the sayd shipps sides side (sic)<br /> to worke and fasten the sayd Rudder againe thereby to bring<br /> the sayd shipp to her steerage who with great hazards of<br /> their lives did fasten the same but the tempest continueing<br /> with great furie presently brake the same soe that<br /> untill about fower dayes after the first beginning of the<br /> sayd storme the sayd shipps Rudder could not bee fastened<br /> soe as to make it continue fast And the Master and company<br /> during the sayd storme were forced to pumpe and did pumpe by turnes<br /> day and night continually at the chayne pumpe of the sayd<br /> shipp and use all other meanes possible to preserve the sayd<br /> shipp and ladeing and by Gods blessing upon such their<br /> labours did with great difficulty preseve her and her ladeing<br /> from sinkeing in the sea by meanes of the sayd storme This<br /> heees of the sayd storme This<br /> hee  +
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