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Tuesday 11 December 2018

Swedish convoys according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 20 April 1782.

Stockholm, 31 March. According to an order dated 12 April dealing with the Swedish convoys were the Swedish merchant ships to assemble off Ellsinore [Elezeneur]. There were four convoys:
1st convoy to depart 29 May towards the Mediterranean with the frigate Sprengporten and which frigate was to return from there 1 September while escorting the merchant ships coming from Malaga
2nd convoy to depart from the Sont 14 July with the frigate Postillon destined towards Cape Finisterre and back
3rd convoy from with the Sont with the same destination to depart 31 August the frigate Illerim
4th convoy from the Sont towards Livorno to depart 30 September with the frigate Gripen which frigate was to go in the end of February 1783 with special orders to Morocco and from to come back to Karlskrona while escorting Swedish merchant ships.
There were no other ships allowed to join these convoys unless they obeyed the Royal order dated 18 February 1779 and the Laws of the Armed Neutrality. Ships were allowed at open sea to leave the squadron.