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Monday 19 July 2021

Russia seizing merchant ships needing transports according to the Dutch magazine Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius dated July 1759

An item from St. Petersburg reported that again all ships were seized and of the ones which were half loaded was the cargo unloaded. The masters were very pleased while their freights were very well paid. Excluded these seized ships were almost hundred Swedish ships loaded with victuals, stored and ammunition departed from St. Petersburg destined for the Russian army.