High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Alerte of Redon (master L Garbay, owner Corbain)....

High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: Alerte of Redon (master L Garbay, owner Corbain).

Capture history: a French merchant ship (150 tons, 13 or 14 men) bound from Bordeaux to the Isle de France [Mauritius] and the Isle Bourbon [Reunion], laden with wine, brandy, oil, iron, soap, stockfish and other articles; taken on 31 May 1780, by the privateer Triumph of Guernsey ([Peter Agnew ?] commanding), retaken on 9 or 10 June 1780 by the French privateer Americain of Granville, retaken on 11 June 1780 in latitude 47°30'N, longitude 9°W of Paris by the privateer Greyhound of Bristol (James Nelson commanding), and brought into Bristol.

Intended voyage: from France to the Indian Ocean.

Court papers numbered CP 1-4:-

• [CP 1]: attestation as to papers (numbered 1-2) brought in by the prize master Stephen Rogers, second lieutenant, 15 June 1780;
• [CP 2]: three depositions taken at Bristol, of Nicholas Le Sourel, Pierre Duguien and Jean Moranton, and commissioners' affidavit, 19-29 June 1780;
• [CP 3]: translation of SP 1, 4 July 1780;
• [CP 4]: allegation of the captor, 8 July 1780;

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-2:-

• SP 1: bill of lading, 27 March 1780;
• SP 2: cargo manifest, 14 March 1780.

[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-6; Ship's papers: 7-8 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].

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