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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Rising States of Boston formerly Annabella...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/442/11

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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Rising States of Boston formerly Annabella... dating from 1777 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
HCA 32/442/11
Date
1777
Description

High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: Rising States of Boston formerly Annabella (commander James Thompson).

History: an American privateer (brigantine, 210 tons, guns not stated, 39 men), bound from Cape Cod, Massachusetts on a cruise; taken on 15 April 1777 in the Bay of Biscay by HMS Terrible (Sir Richard Bickerton commanding), and brought into Portsmouth.

See HCA 30/716 for the ship's log, ADM 106/1240/8 and 28-33 for various papers including depositions of crewmen, and ADM 354/194/318-319 and 195/71.

Court papers: 1-25; Ship's papers: 26-37. [These are interim paper numbers, and are likely to change once more fully catalogued].

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/442/11/1-37
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13507564/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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