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|Person=Martin Herraw
|First name=Martin
|Last name=Herraw
|Mariner occupation=Cook
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Marke
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|Has signoff text=MH
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|Language skills=German language,
|Res town=Hamburg
|Res country=Germania
|Birth year=1618
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.260v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Mar 19 1655
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
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|Has source comment completed=No
|Type of ship=Merchant ship
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
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==Biographical synthesis==
Martin Herraw (b. ca. 1618; d. ?).

Cook on the ship the ''Hope'' of Hamburg, lying in the River Thames in March 1655.

Resident in 1655 in Hamburg.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Thirty-seven year old Martin Herraw deposed on March 19th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.260v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.260v]]</ref> He was examined "Touching a shott of a greate gunn from the shipp the ''Hope'' of Hamborough (Peter hammonson Backer master) as shee was lying in the River of Thames".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.260r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.260r]]</ref>

Martin Herraw recounted a tragic accident leading to the death of a man on shore due to cannon fire from the ship the ''Hope'' of Hamburg whilst it lay at anchor in the River Thames. According to Herraw, on Saturday two weeks before his deposition, most of the company, including Martin Herraw, were at work in the hold of their ship whilst it lay at anchor near the New Crane.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.260v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.260v]]</ref>

Herraw stated that the master of the ''Hope'' had called for his gunner "to make a gun cleare and readie, in regard of some friends (English) that were with him". Herraw was still in the hold when he heard a gun go off on board the ship and then a cry from ashore. "Whereupon running up, they saw the master in greate distraction, and heard that the said Gunner had shott off a gunn without the masters order, and that hee knew not that it was laden, and that there was a man killed by the said shott". The Gunner fled from the ship ashore." Herraw concluded that "hee was informed the said master had ordered him to make readie the aftermost gunn, but hee through mistake or neglect of his order made readie one by the maine mast, and that the same was fired or went off before any order given by the master for firing."<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.261r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.261r]]</ref>

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