Built in Brittany, France as a carrack, carvel hulled built, when built is not clear but in 1462, her owner was the merchant Marcus Boeff from Rochelle. At that time she carried the name PIERRE DE La ROCHELLE
In 1462 with a cargo of sea salt from La Rochelle she was during the voyage damaged when during a thunderstorm her main-mast was hit by a lighting strike and heavily damaged, on arrival in Gdansk she needed repair. After discharging she was moved to the Motlau-Harbour for repair.
Before the repair was finished the owner had to leave Gdansk and authorized a Peter Byszert for handling the ship repair, but he got sick and died very soon. Before he died he authorized Peter de Nantes to managed the ship.
Nantes pledged the ship for a large sum of money to two citizen of Gdansk, but when Marcus Boeff returned he did not recognized it and was saying that the French King Louis XI was the owner of the ship.
De Nantes had already spent a large sum of the pledge and some was apparently misappropriated and he was thrown in prison.
The matter came now in diplomatic hands and the Hanseatic Office in Bruges negotiated with the envoys of the French King.
Gdansk kept the ship but she neglected her and she became an eyesore to the harbour
After the Hanse declared war on England she was refitted in a warship and renamed PETER VON DANZIG.
Tonnage 800 tons burthen, dim. approximately 51(length on deck) x 12m. length of keel 31m.
Sail area 760 m².
Armament 18 guns and some lighter armament.
Crew 50 and 300 mariners.
1471 In service after her refit and under command of the Gdansk alderman Berndt Pawest she sailed to Bruges.
When King Edward IV of England increasingly curtailed the Hansa her trading privileges they declared war on England.
The war was more a privateer war and Pawest with a “letter of marquee” raided the British coast waters. .
1472 The ships was sold to some citizen in Danzig.
Under command of Captain Paul Beneke he made several successfully privateering raids on the English coasts.
She seized off the Thames the British ship ST THOMAS fully loaded. The prize was £60,000 a very large sum of money for that time.
By the Treaty of Utrecht in 1474 the war ended.
1478 The PETER VON DANZIG was wrecked and thereafter scrapped.
Danzig 1938 40pf + 15pf sg 280, scottB32
Source Wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_von_Danzig_(1462)