Thomas Bull

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Thomas Bull
Person Thomas Bull
Title
First name Thomas
Middle name(s)
Last name Bull
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Widow of
Occupation Mariner
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation Gunner
Associated with ship(s) Warewell (Master: Robert Clarke)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen Unknown
Literacy Signature
Has opening text Thomas Bull
Has signoff text Thomas Bull
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Language skills English language
Has interpreter
Birth street
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Birth country
Res street Wapping
Res parish
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Res county Middlesex
Res province
Res country England
Birth year 1629
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Probate date
First deposition age 30
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/73 f.41r Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Feb 4 1659
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Has infobox completed Yes
Has synthesis completed No
Has HCA evidence completed No
Has source comment completed No
Ship classification
Type of ship Coal ship
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

Thomas Bull (b. ca. 1629; d. ?). Mariner.

Gunner of the coal ship the Warewell (Master: Robert Clarke).

Resident in 1659 in Wapping.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Thirty year old Thomas Bull deposed on February 4th 1659 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on a libel in the cause of "Clarke against Scattergood".[1]

Thomas Bull went gunner of the Warewell on the voyage which resulted in September 1658 in her bilging on an anchor a little below Wapping dock. After the bilging, Thomas Bull was "one that helped to pumpe the said ship after her bilging aforesaid, and alsoe helped to heave out the said coales out of her". Her master, Robert Clarke "for the preservation and securing of her, did cause his company, and some other men that he hired, imediately to heave her coales out of her portholes into lighters, which coales were very wet, and much damnified". In all they heaved some ninety chauldron of coals into lighters gathered by the ship, which greatly lightened the vessel and reduced the damage that could have happened.[2]

As gunner of the Warewell, Thomas Bull could detail and value the damage done to "powder, match paper and gunner's stor" which he assessed at £10.[3]

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/73 f.41r
  2. HCA 13/73 f.41r
  3. HCA 13/73 f.41v