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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Aigle of Nantes (master Rene Poule, replaced...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/262/20
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- HCA 32/262/20
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1778 Oct 1
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High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: Aigle of Nantes (master Rene Poule, replaced at Saint Domingue by Benigne Vorle Michateau).
Capture history: a French merchant ship (brigantine, 150-200 tons, 14 guns) bound from Saint Domingue to Nantes, laden with sugar, coffee, indigo and cotton; taken on 1 October 1778 in latitude 47°30'N, longitude 12°W by the privateer Ellis (John Washington commanding), and brought first into Kinsale, Ireland, and then into Liverpool.
Intended voyage: from the Caribbean Islands to France.
Court papers numbered CP 1-4:-
- [CP 1]: attestation as to papers (numbered 1-19) brought in by the prize master John Minshull, second mate, 3 November 1778;
- [CP 2]: three depositions of Benigne Vorle Michateau, Rene Viel surgeon, and Mathurin Lambert carpenter, taken at Liverpool, and commissioners' affidavit, 4-6 November 1778;
- [CP 3]: translation of the ship's papers, 13 November 1778;
- [CP 4]: allegation, 2 December1778.
Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-19:-
- SP 1: certificate that the ship's medicine chest is adequate;
- SP 2-SP 11: bills of lading;
- SP 12-SP 18: official ship's papers;
- SP 19: muster roll, with details of passengers to and from Saint Domingue, with some noted as free blacks or slaves.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-33; Ship's papers: 34-54 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024, some papers moved to HCA 32/262/22].
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- HCA 32/262/20/1-54
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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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