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Monday 25 May 2015

British privateer recaptured Danish merchant ship from French privateer according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsche courant dated 6 July 1793

An item reported that a French privateer captured a Danish ship captain A. Lorense Holdt underway from Cette [Sète], France towards Oostende, Belgium but which ship was recaptured by a British privateer and sent to Guernsey. On board of the Danish ship was the Dutch captain C. Doedes de Jong which ship coming from Cadiz, Spain was also captured by a French privateer but recaptured by a British privateer.