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: St Barbe otherwise Le Constantin of Marseilles (master Guillaume Caithol)....
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/98/5
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This record is about the Captured ship: St Barbe otherwise Le Constantin of Marseilles (master Guillaume Caithol).... 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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- HCA 32/98/5
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1748
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: St Barbe otherwise Le Constantin of Marseilles (master Guillaume Caithol).
History: a French merchant ship (180 tons, 8 guns, 30 men, 3 French passengers, 3 or 4 English prisoners of war) bound from Saint Domingue to Bordeaux, laden with sugar, indigo, coffee and hides, taken on 5/16 April 1748 in latitude 46°30 by HMS Monmouth (Henry Harrison commanding), and brought into Plymouth.
Documents:-
Court Papers:
- [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatores, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
- [CP 6]: allegation;
- [CP 7]: attestation as to papers, noting that a bag of letters had been sent aboard HMS Hampton Court;
- [CP 8]: abstract and translation of the 345 ship's papers, annotated with details of the delivery to Crespigny of nos 236-288 (but not 282) and 11 unnumbered papers. The abstract describes these papers as nos 223-298 'private letters and papers of no consequence relating to the ship L'Aimable Susanne'.
Ship's Papers, numbered SP 1-SP 345. These include Caithol's trading papers on St Domingue, having come from Marseilles with wine, soap and oil; and some letters. Nos 236-281 and 283-286 are not here.
[Decision: condemned as prize, 6 June 1748]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Miscellaneous
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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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