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Captured ship: La Bacquencourt of Boulogne (master André Delamer). History: a French...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/99/1

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HCA 32/99/1
Date
1746
Description

Captured ship: La Bacquencourt of Boulogne (master André Delamer).

History: a French privateer (a dogger, 60 tons, 6 carriage guns, 14 swivel guns, 65 men) on a cruise from Cherbourg; taken on 23 December 1746/3 January 1747 five leagues south west of the Isle of Wight by HMS Porcupine (Hon Augustus Hervey commanding), and brought into Plymouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: allegation;
  • [CP 7-CP 8]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 3 ship's papers.

Ship's papers, now marked SP A-SP C, including at C the captain's contract with his officers and crew.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 4 February 1747].

Note: Hervey described his subterfuges in capturing this ship in his private journal (apparently including the use of a distress signal): see Augustus Hervey's Journal, David Erskine ed, (1953), pp46-47.

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Miscellaneous
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512532/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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