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Date Posted: 22:47:04 11/26/08 Wed
Author: Ron
Subject: Re: Privateers
In reply to: Gerardo 's message, "Re: Privateers" on 18:24:48 11/26/08 Wed

Ken is quite correct dealing with the Dutch privateers. For the Napoleonic period there were quite a lot of privateers private owned but with a strong relation with the Dutch navy, for instance former naval vessels were used as privateers, naval officers were permitted to enter the 'privateer'service. And there were rules how to behave as privateers. If I have some time I will publish with my notes
Ron

>Sometimes, the privateers of the Provincias Unidas del
>Río de la Plata were given a certain number of
>commissions to man captured vessels as auxiliaries.
>A commun rule was to send the captured vessels to a
>port where the State that gave the commission can act
>at a "tribunal de presa", that says if the capture is
>good or the vessel wasn't a legal prize. Many
>privateers burned some of their prizes, or send them
>to neutral ports and sold them (sometimes is
>impossible to send the prizes to the legal ports
>stated, as they were blockaded).
>There were frequently documents to be given to each of
>the officers in charge of the prizes.
>Ken is also right about the "fianza" (bond) and when
>he says that normally the commission is made to a
>given vessel, captain, owner, etc. But at least at the
>Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata, the government
>also had given empty commissions to be completed at
>Foreign places (mostly to powerfull merchants).
>I must say that the commissions are numbered, but some
>numbers were used more than once.
>Many of the PURP's privateers (and also many of those
>of other Hispanoamerican countries) were former US
>privateers of the war of 1812, that never were at
>Buenos Aires or other PURP's port and operated from
>Baltimore or other places of the South of the USA.
>The kind of vessel that Ken (as most books in English
>that I saw) names "letter-of-marque" was called here a
>vessel "armado en corso y mercancías".
>Bye
>Gerardo

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