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Captured ship: L'Amiral of Bordeaux (master Jacques Simon Lonnergan or Lonergan)...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/96/13

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This record is about the Captured ship: L'Amiral of Bordeaux (master Jacques Simon Lonnergan or Lonergan)... dating from 1745-1746 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 32/96/13
Date
1745-1746
Description

Captured ship: L'Amiral of Bordeaux (master Jacques Simon Lonnergan or Lonergan) formerly the English ship Admiral Vernon, captured by Spain and sold to France.

History: a French merchant ship [in the slave trade] with letter of marque, having gone first from Bordeaux to the Guinea Coast and thence to Martinique, now bound from Martinique to Bordeaux, laden with sugar and coffee; taken in fight on 16/27 April 1745 by the privateer Thurloe of Liverpool (James Kennan commanding), and brought first into Cork, and then into Liverpool.

Documents:-

Court papers:

  • [CP 1- CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit, from Liverpool;
  • [CP 6-CP 7]: two claims for goods (linen, gloves and gunpowder) removed from the English or Irish ship Clinton (master Thomas Bowne) bound from Belfast to New York, just taken by L'Amiral and put to ransom;
  • [CP 8]: allegation;
  • [CP 9-CP 10]: attestation with detailed schedule of the claimed cargo of the Clinton;
  • [CP 11-CP 12]: commision of appraisement with an inventory of the said claimed cargo;
  • [CP 13-CP 14]: attestation and translation of the papers of the L'Amiral de Bordeaux.

Ship's papers:-

  • SP 1-SP 19: ship's papers of L'Amiral de Bordeaux;
  • SP 20-SP 32: ship's papers of the Clinton, mostly bills of lading, with SP 32 being the ransom bill.

[Decision: ship and part of cargo condemned as prize, 4 February 1745; but part restored [from the Clinton] paying 1/2 salvage, 18 June 1745]

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

For more on the Clinton, see HCA 32/103/28

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/96/2/6; part added from HCA 32/97/14 in 1951
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Miscellaneous
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512458/

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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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