HALL, ROBERT [SSNE 253]

Surname

HALL

First name

ROBERT

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Region

Social status

GENTRY

Education

Religion

Text source

Robert Hall was a Scotsman in Danish-Norwegian service who commanded the vessels Papegojen and Lindormen. He was listed as a captain in 1659, and chief of the warship Lindormen and Sorte Rytter that year. During the war against Sweden he was ordered to defeat to Swedish ship outside Landskrona, but he only succeeded in arresting 4 Prussian 'koffardi'ships. He also fought the Swedes on board the Papegojen. Hall departed from service in 1660. 

T.O.Topsoe-Jensen and E.Marquard, vol.1, pp.520-1; T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.145. (RA> Da. Kanc. B 150, fol. 231v.-232r. no. 31; Kbh. Dipl. V, pp. 622, 641-2; Lind 1869, pp. 169-72, 180,186, 199).

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, NAVY

Arrived 1659-04-23, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1660-07-11, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose NAVAL