The Cargo on Vrouw Maria™
The Finnish historian Christian Ahlström, has listed the cargo based on the ledger made by the Danish customs, when Captain Reinhold Lorenz declared his ship September 23rd, 1771.
Some of these objects have been lifted from
Vrouw Maria.
Source: Ahlströms Article in Nautica Finnica,
2000, about the Empress.
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|
Cargo |
Danish
Rixdollars |
Skillings
|
85 562 pounds of
sugar |
160 |
21 |
17 980 pounds of
dyer´s madder |
16.5 |
18 |
4 700 pounds of
Brazilian wood |
2.5 |
21 |
1 220 pounds of
cotton |
4.5 |
4 |
3 230 pounds of
indigo |
24 |
12 |
250 pounds of
mercury |
3.5 |
12 |
2 pounds of sewing
thread |
- |
1 |
39.75 shippounds of
zinc |
19.5 |
12 |
2.33 shippounds of
winestone |
- |
14 |
0.5 shippounds of
cheese |
- |
2 |
20 reams of
paper |
- |
8 |
0.5 barrel of
herring |
1 |
1 |
0.5 barrel of
cod |
1 |
1 |
0.75 barrel of
butter |
- |
4 |
219 pieces of
cloth |
20.5 |
2 |
491 pieces of
cotton |
19 |
2 |
16 pieces of Dutch
linen |
0.5 |
15 |
2 pieces of
damask |
- |
8 |
Assorted
merchandise (unspecified) worth 9783
rixdollars |
97.5 |
17 |
Skippers private
goods |
14.5 |
15 |
|
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