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Captured ship: Alexander of London formerly the French ship St Pierre (master Robert...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/94/2

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Reference
HCA 32/94/2
Date
1745
Description

Captured ship: Alexander of London formerly the French ship St Pierre (master Robert Rose before the capture, Pierre Donat and Pierre Tanquerel after the capture).

History: an English ship bound from Cowes and Weymouth to Barbados; taken on 13/24 June 1745 by the French privateers St Michael of St Malo and Prince de Conti, retaken on 27 June/ 8 July 1745 by the Dutch warship Assendelft (John Boudaen commanding) and the English privateer Greyhound (David Jenkins commanding), and brought first into Plymouth and then into Portsmouth.

Documents:-

Court papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 6]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commisioners' affidavit, wrapper;
  • [CP 7-CP 10]: attestations for the Greyhound made before a master in Chancery at Falmouth about the Dutch claim;
  • [CP 11]: commission for appraisement and sale, and details of sale with a printed advertisement (on a thong);
  • [CP 12-CP 14]: allegation, attestation, and abstract and translation of the 9 ship's papers.

Ship's papers: now numbered SP 1-SP 9, from the French privateers, and including SP 9, a journal of the cruise of the Prince de Conti with marginal coloured drawings of the 6 ships spoken to, including the 2 English ships captured, on the cruise.

[Decision: restored to owners, paying 1/8 salvage to the Assendelft, 14 June and 5 August 1746]

Note
Claim and appraisement etc added from HCA 32/96 in the 1950s; Extra information added from HCA 30/775/4
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512384/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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