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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Activité of Martigues (master Claude Berard)....
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/261/6
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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Activité of Martigues (master Claude Berard).... dating from 1781 Nov 20 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 32/261/6
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1781 Nov 20
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High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: Activité of Martigues (master Claude Berard).
Capture history: a French merchant ship with a letter of marque (310 tons, 18 guns, 6 swivel guns, 61 men) bound from Marseilles to Cap François, Saint Domingue, laden with wine, oil, flour, soap, and brandy; taken on 20 November 1781 in latitude 37°10'N about 15 leagues S of Cape Palos, Spain by the privateer Fame (Thomas Moore commanding), and brought into Algiers on 23 November 1781, to discharge the prisoners, before the captors sailed the Fame to Livorno to start the legal process.
Intended voyage: from France to the Caribbean Islands.
Court papers numbered CP 1-8:-
- [CP 1]: extract in French from the register of the British Chancery Office in Algiers of the depositions of Claude Berard and Michel Dommergue on 24 November 1781, made on 9 December 1781 [numbered by the captor or consul in Livorno as ship's paper 4];
- [CP 2]: translation of CP 1;
- [CP 3-CP 4]: narrative of capture and attestation of papers made at the Health Office in Livorno, to be delivered to the British Consul there, with an attached affidavit in Italian, translated as CP 4;
- [CP 5-CP 7]: translations of ship's papers etc;
- [CP 8]: commission of appraisement and sale to Mr Davidson, merchant of Algiers, to sell the ship Activité, 6 May 1782;
- [CP 9-CP 10]: appraisement (18 December 1782) and account of the sale, costs and charges, 21 January 1783, by Nathaniel Davidson at Algiers. /item>
Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-5:-
- SP 1: ship's pass;
- SP 2: bill of health, Marseilles;
- SP 3: list of French signals;
- SP 4: wrongly numbered by the court as a ships paper, and now CP 1;
- SP 5: advance of [wages] to the crew.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-12; Ship's papers: 13-21 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- HCA 32/261/6/1-21
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- Public Record(s)
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- English and French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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