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Captured ship: Le Benjamin of La Rochelle (master Michel François Camouin). History:...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/99/14

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HCA 32/99/14
Date
1747
Description

Captured ship: Le Benjamin of La Rochelle (master Michel François Camouin).

History: a French merchant ship, formerly the English ship Lyon condemned as a prize and sold at Martinique, (180 tons, 24 men) bound from Martinique to La Rochelle, laden with sugar, coffee, cocoa, 'camifis' [?] and cotton; taken on 28 February/11 March 1747 in latitude 46°36 about sixteen leagues off Belle Isle by the privateer Adventure of Guernsey (John Beal commanding), and brought into Plymouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 4]: standing interrogatories, two examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 5]: allegation;
  • [CP 6-CP 7]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 129 ship's papers.

Ship's papers, now numbered SP 1- SP 129.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 10 April 1747]

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Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
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The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
Language
Miscellaneous
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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