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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Aimable Annette of Le Havre, formerly Aimable...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/263/6
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- HCA 32/263/6
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1778 Nov 17
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High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: Aimable Annette of Le Havre, formerly Aimable Marianne (master Louis Justinart otherwise Louis Justinard [previously master of the French slave trader Aimable Jeanette]).
Capture history: a French merchant ship (snow, 160 tons, 16 men, 2 English prisoners of war from HMS Minerva, taken August 1778) bound from St Marc, Saint Domingue to Le Havre, laden with sugar, cotton, coffee, indigo and elephants teeth [ivory]; taken on 17 November 1778 in latitude 47°20'N, longitude 10°W about 30 leagues W of Belle Isle by the privateer Viper (Philip Cowell comanding) and brought first into Cork, Ireland, and then into Liverpool.
Intended voyage: from the Caribbean Islands to France.
Court papers numbered CP 1-4:-
- [CP 1]: two depositions of Louis Justinart and Louis Berrué, second captain, and commissioners' affidavit, Liverpool, 19-21 January 1779;
- [CP 2]: attestation as to papers (numbered 1-60 by the commissioners at Liverpool), brought in by the prize master Thomas Moss, 19 January 1779;
- [CP 3]: allegation, 19 February 1779;
- [CP 4]: translations of some of the ship's papers.
Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-60:-
- SP 1-SP 8: official ship's papers and business papers;
- SP 9-SP 25: bills of lading;
- SP 26-SP 52: official ship's papers and business papers;
- SP 53: muster roll;
- SP 54: night signals;
- SP 55-SP 60 were mail in transit from St Marc, mid-September 1778 and from Cap Francois, late-September 1778: but here are the envelopes only of 55, addressed to someone in Judah (Ouidah?) and 58, to Paris, and letters 56, 57 and 60. No 59 has not yet been found.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-31; Ship's papers: 32-85 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024]. Mail added from the HCA 30 sort in 2024
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- HCA 32/263/6/1-85
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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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