England selling captured Russian merchant ships according to the Dutch newspaper De Noord-Brabanter dated 21 September 1854

An item dated London 17 September reported that the captured Russian ship Aland was sold for 700 pound sterling just a four pound and 7 shilling each ton and her cargo salt for another 784 pound sterling. At Hull were two Russian merchant ships each for 1,700 pound sterling sold.(1)

Note

1. The Russian empire was in war with the French, British and Ottoman empires and the Sardinian kingdom between October 1853 and February 1856 in the so-called Crimean War.