High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Age d'Or of Bordeaux (master Pierre Lussac,...

High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: Age d'Or of Bordeaux (master Pierre Lussac, formerly Pierre Charchevaut).

Capture history: a French merchant ship (400 tons, 5 guns) bound from Guadeloupe and Martinique to Bordeaux, laden with sugar, cotton, coffee and ginger; taken on 17 February 1779 in latitude 45°N by the privateer Terrible (John Ash commanding), and (being severely damaged in a violent storm by running foul of another prize [the Jeanne Victoire: see HCA 32/366/3]) brought first into Cork for repair, and then into Liverpool.

Intended voyage: from the Caribbean Islands to France.

Court papers numbered CP 1-8:-

• [CP 1]: attestation as to papers (numbered 1-64) brought in by the prize master Matthew Bentley, Liverpool, 10 March 1779;
• [CP 2-CP 5]: depositions of Pierre Lussac, Pierre Marcous and Jean de Gastebois, and commissioners' affidavit, Liverpool, 10-12 April 1779;
• [CP 6]: request for unlivery, for damage to the cargo caused by the severe damage to the ship;
• [CP 7]: allegation;
• [CP 8]: translations of the ship's pass and bills of lading.

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-64:-

• SP 1-17, 21-36, 41-63 are mostly official ship's papers and bills of lading;
• SP 18-SP 20: inventories of the goods of deceased members of the crew, including some who died falling overboard;
• SP 37-SP 40: burial and death certificates, Martinique, and bill of health;
• SP 64: muster roll.

[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-33; Ship's papers: 34-97 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].

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