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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Mouche (commander Louis Bourbon). History:...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/404/9

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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Mouche (commander Louis Bourbon). History:... dating from 1781 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HCA 32/404/9
Date
1781
Description

High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: Mouche (commander Louis Bourbon).

History: a French merchant ship with commission (120 tons, 6 guns, 6 swivels, 26 men), bound from the Isle Bourbon [Reunion] to the first port in France via Cape of Good Hope, laden with 20 bags of coffee; taken on 6 March 1781 about 100 leagues from Lorient in the latitude of Belle Isle by the privateer Phoenix (Andrew Pidgley commanding), and brought first into Kinsale, Ireland and then into Dartmouth.

Court papers: 1-3. [These are interim paper numbers, and are likely to change once more fully catalogued].

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/404/9/1-3
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13506998/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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