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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Admiral Spry (master Bunsford, French prize...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/261/11
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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Admiral Spry (master Bunsford, French prize... dating from 1780 Apr 13 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 32/261/11
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1780 Apr 13
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High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: Admiral Spry (master Bunsford, French prize master Jean Toussaint Agghidor).
Capture history: a British Impress Service ship (tender, 200 tons, 8 guns, 2 swivels, 12 men) bound from the Passage of Waterford, Ireland to Plymouth, with 115 pressed seamen and volunteers and several passengers; taken on 11 April 1780 by the French privateer Dunquerquoise (Vanstable commanding) about 15 leagues from Waterford and most of the pressed men put on board the privateer, retaken on 13 April 1780 between Scilly and the Lizard by HMS Ambuscade (Charles Phillipps commanding), and brought into Plymouth.
Intended voyage: from Ireland to England.
Court papers numbered CP 1-4:-
- [CP 1]: standing interrogatories;
- [CP 2]: four depositions of James Lochlam a Waterford pilot, George Hayne, Jean Toussaint Agghidor, and Pierre Patrice, and commissioners' affidavit, 26 April 1780;
- [CP 3]: attestation as to papers (none found) brought in by the prize master James Gandy, midshipman, 5 May 1780;
- [CP 4]: attestation and claim of Jonathan Hill of the Navy Office, 6 June 1780.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-9 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- HCA 32/261/11/1-9
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13504746/
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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