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