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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Aimable Gertrude of Le Havre, formerly Chere...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/264/4
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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Aimable Gertrude of Le Havre, formerly Chere... dating from 1779 Feb 27 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1779 Feb 27
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High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: Aimable Gertrude of Le Havre, formerly Chere Elizabeth (master Jean Jacques Lethuillier).
Capture history: a French merchant ship (280 tons, 23 men) bound from Basseterre and Point a Pitre, Guadeloupe to Le Havre or Brest, laden with coffee, cotton and sugar; taken on 27 February 1779, about 8-10 leagues W or NW from Ushant by the privateer Active (William Watson the elder commanding), and brought into Dover.
Intended voyage: from the Caribbean Islands to France.
Court papers numbered CP 1-12:-
- [CP 1]: attestation as to papers (numbered 1-106) brought in by the prize master William Watson the younger, First Lieutenant, 9 March 1779;
- [CP 2]: two depositions taken at Dover of Jean Jacques Lethuillier and Pierre Nicolas Belloncle, and commissioners' affidavit, 9 March 1779;
- [CP 3-CP 4]: attestation as to the perishing nature of the cargo, and commission of unlivery, 13 March 1779;
- [CP 5]: allegation;
- [CP 6]: translations of ships papers, 24 March 1779;
- [CP 7]: report on the unlading and securing of the whole cargo, 31 March 1779;
- [CP 8]: decree to produce the answer of Wiiliam Yawkins, commander of the privateer Achilles and of John Gibson commander of the privateer Tartar, alleging joint capture, 16 June 1779;
- [CP 9]: affidavit by Lethuillier as to the taking of the most part of his clothes and linen, total value £38, by some of the prize crew as they took the ship into Dover; also that the commander of the Active demanded to fight [a duel] with him (which as a prisoner of war he could not do), etc, 23 June 1779;
- [CP 10-CP 11]: detailed list of the clothes, and translation;
- [CP 12]: affidavit be several members of the crew of the Aimable Gertrude contradicting Lethuillier's affidavit, and specified good treatment while imprisoned on the ship, at Dover and at Tenterden, 25 June 1779;
- [CP 12]: decree to produce the answer of Wiiliam Yawkins, commander of the privateer Achilles and of John Gibson commander of the privateer Tartar, alleging joint capture, 16 June 1779;
Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-106:-
- SP 1-SP 60: bills of lading;
- SP 61-SP 88: receipts, invoices;
- SP 89-SP 93: official ship's papers;
- SP 94-SP 96: invoices;
- SP 97: muster roll;
- SP 98-SP 105: official ship's papers;
- SP 106: tabulated account of the cargo, 14 October 1778.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-26; Ship's papers: 27-131 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- HCA 32/264/4/1-131
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- English and French
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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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