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Captured ship: L'Assomption (master Jacques Thomasin or Thomazin). History: a French...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/94/23

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This record is about the Captured ship: L'Assomption (master Jacques Thomasin or Thomazin). History: a French... 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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HCA 32/94/23
Date
1747
Description

Captured ship: L'Assomption (master Jacques Thomasin or Thomazin).

History: a French merchant ship with a letter of marque, bound from Marseilles to Cap Francois, Saint Domingue, laden with wine, brandy, flour, oil, soap, candles, provisions and some goods of the crew, worth in all about 100,000 livres; taken in fight on 18 March 1747, 25 leagues off Cape Spartel, by the privateer Dreadnought (Richard Veale commanding), and brought into Lisbon.

Documents:-

Court papers:

  • [CP 1]: booklet of four examinations taken at Lisbon on the Dreadnought;
  • [CP 2]: attestation;
  • [CP 3]: allegation;
  • [CP 4]: abstract and translation of the 5 ship's papers.

Ship's papers: numbered SP 1-SP 5.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 1 September 1747]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/94/2/7
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512405/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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