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Captured ship: Les Bons Enfants of Nantes (master Jean Laurent Robart or Robard)....

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/98/24

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HCA 32/98/24
Date
1744
Description

Captured ship: Les Bons Enfants of Nantes (master Jean Laurent Robart or Robard).

History: a French merchant ship (150 tons, 10 guns), bound from Saint Domingue to Nantes in a convoy of 6 ships, laden with sugar, coffee and indigo; taken in fight on 12/23 August 1744 by HMS Hampton Court (Savage Mostyn commanding) and the privateer Prince Charles (Charles Gwynn commanding), and brought into Portsmouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 2]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit [one document], parchment wrapper [part of an unrelated indenture];
  • [CP 3-CP 4]: allegations about the disputed joint capture;
  • [CP 5]: abstract and translation of the 9 ship's papers.

Ship's Papers, numbered SP 1-SP 9.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 27 September 1744]

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

Appeal at HCA 42/24/6

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512529/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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