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: L'Aimable Martha of Bordeaux (master Raymond or Raymen Mondavy). History:...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/97/7
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This record is about the Captured ship: L'Aimable Martha of Bordeaux (master Raymond or Raymen Mondavy). History:... 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 32/97/7
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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: L'Aimable Martha of Bordeaux (master Raymond or Raymen Mondavy).
History: a French merchant ship bound from Saint Domingue to Bordeaux, laden with sugar and indigo, under convoy with three other such ships; taken on 21 June / 2 July 1747 (by being driven ashore at Cape Finisterre, their privateer escort burned and the merchant ships refloated), by Admiral Sir Peter Warren's squadron, and brought into Plymouth.
Documents:-
Court Papers [several are wrongly annotated as relating to Les Aimable Marthes of Bordeaux, master Réaud]:-
- [CP 1-CP 4]: standing interrogatories, two examinations (including that of Robert Day of the English [American] privateer Greyhound of New York, which had been taken by the French privateer Etoile or Star, escorting the convoy), and commissioners' affidavit;
- [CP 5]: attestation that ship was leaking;
- [CP 6]: allegation;
- [CP 7-CP 8]: attestation, and abstract and translation of 5 papers.
Ship's Papers:
- SP 1, a bill of lading;
- SP 2-SP 5, the personal archive of Jean Dumas, second pilot, comprising (2, 3, 4) 3 letters and (5) his journal of the voyage in L'Aimable Martha, owned by Messrs Dubergier Père et Fils, 19 February 1746-1 July 1747 (NS).
[Decision: condemned as prize, 1 September 1747]
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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 French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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