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Riksens Ständer
Built at Terra Nova, Burthen 460 Swedish Last (about 1,425 tons), 34 cannons, 170 men. During the third charter, Riksens Ständer reduces its weaponry to 16 cannons and its crew to 150 men according to STK. |
Voyages during the second charter:
April 14, 1760 - August 18, 1762 To Suratte and Canton under Captain Baltzar Grubb. Supercargos: David Sandberg, Chr. Hinr. Braad, Magnus Borgman, H. W. Hahr, B. Fr. Ritterberg. Arrived in Suratte in October and found the Englishmen masters of the city. After three months of normal trade, the nawab demanded 10,000 rupees before anything else could be shipped "for he was a poor man". Secretly, all the money, 30,000 rupees in two chests and a box, was transferred from the factory to the ship. At 3 in the morning on February 20, the Swedes were arrested and their house surrounded by 500 of the nawab's troops. The nawab wanted a gift of 400,000 rupees for the new king. When the Swedes refused, they were taken to "The Little House" where they were strictly guarded and tormented by the guards' "clamorous music and a horde of rats". The captive Swedes then sent their ship to Goa, upon which the nawab's demands fell first to 60,000 rupees and then to 50,000, under threat of "ill treatment". "We will defend our skin for a while," wrote Captain Grubb in his diary. On March 17, they agreed on 17,000 rupees and arrived on August 15 at the Wampoa anchorage. April 1763 - August 1764. To Canton under Captain Daniel Shierman. Supercargos: Friedrich Wilhelm König (died on the return journey), Carl Walter, Jacob Hahr (supercargo in Canton 1769-1775), Gustaf Thollander, Ulric M. Valtinson. January 23, 1765 - July 27, 1766 To Canton under Captain Carl Gustaf Lehman. Supercargos: Nicolas Heegg, Henric Herman Ditmer (af Ditmer after 1769), Joh. Paul Eckerman, Joh. Paul Flygare. Voyages during the third charter: December 15, 1786 - June 17, 1770 To Canton under Captain Jacob Habicht. Supercargo: H.W. Hahr. |
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