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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Three Sisters or Trois Soeurs (master Jules...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/462/15

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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Three Sisters or Trois Soeurs (master Jules... dating from 1782 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HCA 32/462/15
Date
1782
Description

High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: Three Sisters or Trois Soeurs (master Jules Gayet, American prize master Benjamin Ramsdell).

History: a French merchant ship (550 [sic] tons, 2 guns, 24 men but after 3 captures reduced to 8 Americans, 2 French, 3 English - from the first captor Sally), bound from Saint Domingue to Marseilles, laden with sugar, cotton, coffee, indigo, tobacco; taken on 21 December 1782 by the privateer Sally of Bristol (John Langden commanding), retaken on 23 December 1782 in latitude 36°20'N, longitude 14°13'W by the American privateer Nonpareil of Virginia (James Coffin commanding) and sent in for Cadiz, retaken on 25 December 1782 in latitude 36°18'N, longitude 13°30'W by the privateer Hornet (John Kimber commanding), and brought into Bristol.

Court papers: 1-28; Ship's papers: 29-52.

[These are interim paper numbers, and are likely to change once more fully catalogued].

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/462/15/1-52
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13507927/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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