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Captured ship: La Belle Louise of Bordeaux (master Jean Fromentin). History: a French...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/98/9

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Reference
HCA 32/98/9
Date
1745
Description

Captured ship: La Belle Louise of Bordeaux (master Jean Fromentin).

History: a French merchant ship with a letter of marque (200 tons, 43 men, 14 guns) bound from Martinique to Bordeaux, laden with sugar, coffee and cassia; taken in fight on 24 May / 4 June 1745 in latitude 45°50'N by the privateers Boscawen (George Walker commanding) and Sheerness (John Furnell commanding), and taken into Bristol.

La Belle Louise was in a convoy of eight ships en route from Martinique, one of which was sunk and five taken in the same action, the others captured being L'Abraham of Nantes (Jacques Berthomé, master), Le St André of Bordeaux (Pierre Gautier, master), Le Duc de Guienne (Pierre Lestourniere, master) and La Victoire (René Bruslé, master).]

Documents:-

Court Papers: now numbered [CP 1-CP 8]:

  • [CP 1] standing interrogatories;
  • [CP 2-CP 4] three examinations;
  • [CP 5] commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6] allegation;
  • [CP 7] attestation of papers;
  • [CP 8] translation and abstract of ship's papers.

Ship's Papers:

  • Bundle A: now numbered A1-A29;
  • Bundle B: now numbered B1-B61;
  • Bundle C: now numbered C1-C85;
  • Bundle D: now numbered D1-D21;
  • [Bundle E]: now numbered E1-E38.

Master's Archive:

  • [Bundle F]: now numbered F1-F48.

Mail in transit:

  • [Bundle G]: now numbered G1-G50.

Additional mail taken from this ship and muddled up at the time with mail taken from other ships of the convoy is in HCA 32/97/1, Bundle P.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 9 July 1745]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/1 and HCA 775/4
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Miscellaneous
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512514/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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