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Captured ship: L'Angela Maria Galère otherwise the Angel Mary Galley (master Jan...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/95/34

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This record is about the Captured ship: L'Angela Maria Galère otherwise the Angel Mary Galley (master Jan... dating from 1748 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
HCA 32/95/34
Date
1748
Description

Captured ship: L'Angela Maria Galère otherwise the Angel Mary Galley (master Jan Vet or John Fet).

History: a Dutch merchant ship bound from Cadiz to Amsterdam, laden with wine, brandy, oil, olives, lemons and oranges; taken on 27 January/7 February 1748 by the French privateer Union Villeflix of Boulogne (Louis Hercules Libert commanding) and a prize crew put on board - the privateer later sinking off Scilly, all her crew transferred to the prize with their papers; retaken on 20 February by HMS Defiance (John Bentley commanding) in company with an English and Dutch fleet, and brought into Plymouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6-CP 9]: attestation, and three sets of abstracts and translations of the 78 ship's papers of the French captor Union Villeflix of Boulogne [these ship's papers are not here];
  • [CP 10]: attestation as to the perishing nature of the oranges and lemons, part of the cargo;
  • [CP 11]: claim, 1748;
  • [CP 12-CP 14]: commision of appraisement and sale, accounts of the sale of the rotting oranges and lemons in Plymouth, and commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 15]: attestation and claim, 1749.

[Decision: restored as being a Dutch ally, paying 1/8 salvage, 7 July 1748]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/95/2/14
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Miscellaneous
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512441/

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