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Captured ship: L'Aimable Maria (master naval lieutenant Gilberto Wale). History:...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/95/24

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HCA 32/95/24
Date
1746
Description

Captured ship: L'Aimable Maria (master naval lieutenant Gilberto Wale).

History: a Spanish privateer under the command of the Count D'Esneval, vice-admiral of the King of Denmark, with Spanish royal authority to explore Abyssinia and other dominions of Prester John and convert the inhabitants to the Catholic faith, which having just taken three English vessels at anchor at the [Portuguese] Island of May [Maio] and converted one (the Mary of Glasgow) into a privateer, had broken the laws of neutraility; taken on 26 May 1744 by the outbound East Indies squadron under Admiral Barnett, comprising HMS Medway (Edward Preston commanding), HMS Preston (Earl of Northesk commanding), HMS Deptford (John Phillipson commanding) and HMS Dolphin (John Moore commanding) and brought into Praia on the island of Santiago (in the Cape Verde Islands).

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1]: attestation as to the ship's papers (which had been sent home via the chaplain of HMS Deptford to Benjamin Rosewell of London), October 1746;
  • [CP 2]: allegation, October 1746;
  • [CP 3]: release of claim, November 1746 by two midshipmen of the prize crew;
  • [CP 4]: abstact of papers 1-13;
  • [CP 5]: translation of papers 9 and 10 [which are not here];
  • [CP 6]: translation of paper 11.

Ship's Papers: numbered SP 1-SP 13, relating to the capture, authority and activities of the Spanish. [Papers 9 and 10 are not here.]

[Decision: condemned as prize, 20 January 1747]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Related material

2 examinations are in HCA 13/90

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/95/2/4
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English, French and Spanish
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512431/

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HCA 32

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