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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Aimable Gracieuse of Bordeaux (master Jacques...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/264/6
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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Aimable Gracieuse of Bordeaux (master Jacques... dating from 1779 Apr 15 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 32/264/6
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1779 Apr 15
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High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: Aimable Gracieuse of Bordeaux (master Jacques Ducourneau).
Capture history: a French merchant ship (250 tons, 2 guns, 20 men, and passengers) bound from St Pierre, Martinique to Bordeaux, laden with sugar, coffee, cotton; taken on 15 April 1779 in latitude 45°50'N, longitude 7°E of Tenerife by the privateer Surprize of Guernsey (Thomas Falaise commanding), and brought first into the Isles of Scilly, and then into Dartmouth.
Intended voyage: from the Caribbean Islands to France.
Court papers numbered CP 1-5:-
- [CP 1]: attestation as to papers (numbered 1-40) brought in by Falaise, Dartmouth, 21 April 1779;
- [CP 2]: standing interrogatories;
- [CP 3]: three depositions taken at Dartmouth of Jacques Ducourneau, Bernard Saboulin and Thibeau Pastourneau, and commissioners' affidavit, 24 April 1779;
- [CP 4]: allegation, 1 June 1779;
- [CP 5]: translations of ship's papers.
Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-40:-
- SP 1: muster roll;
- randomly: bills of lading; official ship's papers from Bordeaux and Martinique; trading papers; medical certificates for the crew and for soldiers, and Army certificates for soldiers to return to France;
- SP 40: a journal by a junior officer from 17 August 1777 to 14 April 1779, starting on the French ship L'Harmonie (Jean Maleville commanding) bound for Guadeloupe and ending on the Aimable Gracieuse.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-13; Ship's papers: 14-53 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].
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- HCA 32/264/6/1-53
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- English
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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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