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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Aigle of Calais (commander Nicolas Hardouin)....
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/262/21
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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Aigle of Calais (commander Nicolas Hardouin).... dating from 1781 Oct 28 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HCA 32/262/21
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Date (When the record was created)
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1781 Oct 28
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Description (What the record is about)
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High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: Aigle of Calais (commander Nicolas Hardouin).
Capture history: a French privateer (lugger, 60 tons, 50 men, and prisoners) bound from Brest, via Calais, on a cruise; taken on 28 October 1781 off Cork, Ireland by HMS Flora (William Peere Williams commanding), in sight of HMS Crocodile, and brought into Portsmouth.
Intended voyage: a cruise from France.
Court papers numbered CP 1-5:-
- [CP 1]: attestation as to papers (numbered 1-22) brought in by the prize master Thomas Price, master's mate of HMS Flora, 12 November 1781;
- [CP 2]: standing interrogatories;
- [CP 3]: three depositions of Nicolas Hardouin, Bernard Bigaud, and Louis Mouron, taken at Portsmouth, 12 November 1781;
- [CP 4]: commissioners' affidavits, 12 November 1781;
- [CP 5]: translation of the ship's papers.
Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-22:-
- SP 1: privateer's commission;
- SP 2: role de combat or muster roll;
- SP 3: registration at Calais;
- SP 4-SP 5: lists of officers and men put aboard prizes;
- SP 6-SP 7: blank bills of ransom;
- SP 8-SP 11: notes of captures;
- SP 12: printed order from Louis XVI for French ships not to harass English fishing vessels, 5 June 1779;
- SP 13: details of crew;
- SP 14: details of the 8 English prize crew (prisoners of war) from the English privateer Enterprize of Liverpool, put on board their prize L'Hazard, which had been retaken by L'Aigle;
- SP 15: list of French crew;
- SP 16: list of 7 Scottish crew (prisoners of war) from the Gordon of Greenock;
- SP 17: list of 11 English ansd Irish passengers (prisoners of war) taken in the Lord Muske packet boat when bound from Cork to Bristol;
- SP 18-SP 20: lists of crew;
- SP 21: list of clothes;
- SP 22: muster roll.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-10; Ship's papers: 11-33 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].
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- The National Archives, Kew
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HCA 32/262/21/1-33
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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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