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British New York Vice-Admiralty Court. Captured ship: Aigle (commander LeMoyne de...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/262/24
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This record is about the British New York Vice-Admiralty Court. Captured ship: Aigle (commander LeMoyne de... dating from 1782 Aug 19 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HCA 32/262/24
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1782 Aug 19
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British New York Vice-Admiralty Court.
Captured ship: Aigle (commander LeMoyne de Preneuf).
Capture history: a French naval ship (corvette, 300 tons, 136 crew, 1 passenger, formerly the English East India Company packet boat Eagle Packet taken in 1779 in the chops of the Channel by a joint French and Spanish fleet), now bound from Cap François, Saint Domingue to the Chesapeake in search of Admiral Vaudreuil's squadron; taken in fight on 19 August 1782 off Cape Henry, Virginia by HMS Duc de Chartres (John Child Purvis commanding), and brought into New York.
Intended voyage: from the Caribbean Islands to the United States.
Court papers numbered CP 1-5:-
- [CP 1]: libel in Advocate General at the relation of Purvis v The ship L'Aigle, 28 August 1782;
- [CP 2]: affidavit of papers brought in by the prize master Lieutenant John Pittman, 29 August 1782;
- [CP 3]: deposition of Meurille or Merurille Ferraru, secretary of L'Aigle;
- [CP 4]: answer and claim of James Lodge of New York, employee of the East India Company, 25 September 1782;
- [CP 5]: replication.
Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-99:-
- SP 1: commission of LeMoyne de Preneuf as Lieutenant de Fregate, 6 June 1778;
- SP 2: inventory of boats [?], 27 September 1780;
- SP 3-SP 99: the personal archive of LeMoyne Preneuf, including letters, military orders, reports of fights and other documents arranged by date, 16 May 1778-5 August 1782, from Senegal, the French Caribbean, and France.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-5; Ship's papers: 6-104 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].
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HCA 32/262/24/1-104
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English
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Open Document, Open Description
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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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