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Thursday 28 May 2015

British privateer Caroline captured merchant ship Aurora and Hoopende Zeeman according to the Dutch newspaper Oprechte Haerlemse courant dated 9 March 1805

An item reported that the British privateer Caroline of Whitehaven captured the merchant ship Aurora captain Carsten Bleer underway from Lisbon, Portugal towards Cherbourg, France and which was sent to Whitehaven. A second prize the Hoopende Zeeman captain J.K. Bakker coming from Lisbon was sent to Kinsale, Ireland.