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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Aimable Adelaide formerly Virgin of the Rosary...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/263/3
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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Aimable Adelaide formerly Virgin of the Rosary... dating from 1782 Jun 23 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 32/263/3
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1782 Jun 23
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High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: Aimable Adelaide formerly Virgin of the Rosary (master Paul Bremond).
Capture history: a French merchant ship with letters of marque (polacca, 210 tons, 10 guns, 24 men, 3 passengers) bound from Malaga to the Isle de Bourbon [Réunion], laden with wine, brandy, oil, soap, iron, earthenware, anchovies, salt, tar etc; taken on 23 June 1782 in latitude 34 or 35°N, longitude 9°20'W of Paris meridian by the Board of Ordnance storeship Calonne (Warren Lisle Nicoll commanding, an American Loyalist), and brought into Lisbon or Faro, Portugal.
Intended voyage: from Spain to the Indian Ocean.
Court papers numbered CP 1-3:-
- [CP 1]: attestation of papers (numbered 1-15) bought into Lisbon by the prize master James Smith, chief mate, 13 July 1782;
- [CP 2]: three depositions of Paul Bremond, Bernard Allegre and Joachim Gerbe, before the vice-consul at Lisbon, 13 July 1782;
- [CP 3]: translations of six of the ship's papers.
Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-19:-
- SP 1-SP 3: official ship's papers;
- SP 4: muster roll;
- SP 5-SP 13: ship's business papers;
- SP 14: 'cahier de route' or journal;
- SP 15-SP 19: bills of lading.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-9; Ship's papers: 10-28 (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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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- HCA 32/263/3/1-28
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13504778/
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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