Which port in 1624?

[hallmark]

What is the cargo? Any clues from that?

[sugarbakers]

Certainly looks like Marseilles to me.

I have details of a ship Esperanse run by the owners of the Ipswich sugarhouse 1617-21 ...
<i>... traded goods the like of herrings from Lowestoft, lead from London & Newcastle, Suffolk broad cloth, cloth from Norwich, stockings and hose of many kinds, wax, soap, etc, as well as dried fish from Newfoundland. They were carried to ports in Spain, Portugal, France & Italy where they were sold and the proceeds either sent home or used to purchase other goods locally for return to England, e.g. silk from Granada, saffron and cochineal ...... and sugar from Lisbon and London.</i>
... so no reason there should not have been trade with Marseilles, even if it was just en route somewhere.

( Details ... www.mawer.clara.net/loc-ipswich.html )

[bristolloggerheads]

Just 92 small gross of tobacco pipes!

[youngtug]

92gross=13248. Is that small pipes, rather than small gross?

[bristolloggerheads]

No, a small gross was 10 dozen.

[youngtug]

So, a few less. 11040.
Not sure that this might be relevant; https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1785&context=adan

[mckha489]

My alternate idea was Marrakesh, but I don’t think that’s close enough to the coast.  Is there a port with a similar name?

[horselydown86]

The letters make it:  Marcellis

[mckha489]

The letters make it:  Marcellis

I tried googling Marcellis. To see if it came up with “this was the old name for......”. All I could get was Marc Ellis. (NZ Rugby League player) !!!!!!