Piece
Former piece now catalogued as HCA 32/8A, HCA 32/8B and HCA 32/8C.
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/8
Former piece now catalogued as HCA 32/8A,HCA 32/8B and HCA 32/8C.
Item
Captured ship: St Agatha Galley otherwise La Agata Galera (master Don Juan de Rozas,...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/94/17
What’s it about?
This record is about the Captured ship: St Agatha Galley otherwise La Agata Galera (master Don Juan de Rozas,... dating from 1747 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HCA 32/94/17
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1747
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: St Agatha Galley otherwise La Agata Galera (master Don Juan de Rozas, with Arent Tuyn the Dutch captain and pilot).
History: a Dutch frigate (250 tons) trading as a Spanish register ship [bound from Veracruz to Cadiz, laden with specie (silver), vanilla, cochineal, indigo etc]; taken on [2/13] November 1747 [off Cape St Vncent] by the privateers Prince Frederick, King George, Prince George, Duke and Princess Amelia (the Royal Family privateer squadron), and brought first into Lisbon, and then into London.
Documents:-
Court Papers: no court papers [removed on appeal?], except
- [CP 1- CP 6]: abstracts and translations of the 166 ship's papers.
Ship's papers; numbered SP 1- SP 166, including bills of lading, charterparties, master's archive (including letters) and mail in transit. A further small set of ship's papers are included with the appeal papers.
[Decision: condemned as prize, appealed and sentence affirmed 5 April 1748]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Appeal papers are at HCA 42/23/1; examinations in HCA 13/91
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- HCA 32/94/2/1
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and Spanish
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512399/
Series information
HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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