Loss of the St. Jacob

Loss of the St. Jacob
	Part of the prelude to the Dano-Mughal War
	; East Indiamen in a Gale, by Charles Brooking
Date	1640
Location	Bay of Bengal
Result	Mughal victory
Belligerents
Danish India	Mughal Empire Bengal Subah; ;
Commanders and leaders
Nicolaj Samson	Hadi Gayas
Units involved
St Jacob	Unknown
Strength
1 ship	Unknown
Casualties and losses
1 ship; 33 men killed or drowned	None
	Goods to the value of 150,000 Danish rigsdaler lost

The Loss of the St. Jacob (Danish: Tabet af St. Jacob), also referred to as the Seizure of the St. Jacob(beslaglæggelsen af St. Jacob), was a destruction and seizure of a Danish merchant ship, the St. Jacob, by local Bengali authorities. The loss and destruction of the ship and its crew, led to the Dano-Mughal War, which would last for 56 years.