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 Blaise (master Jean Viollet). History: a French merchant ship (250...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/99/19
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HCA 32/99/19
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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 Blaise (master Jean Viollet).
History: a French merchant ship (250 tons, 38 men) bound from Cyprus and Alexandretta via Malta to Marseilles, laden with silk, wool, drugs, cotton galls, and other merchandise; taken on 2/[13] January 1748 in latitude 37 twenty leagues off Malta by the privateer Constantine [of Bristol] (John Read commanding), and brought first into Malta and then into Leghorn [Livorno].
Documents:-
Court Papers:
- [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, two examinations of the captors taken at Bristol on 27 July 1748, commissioners' affidavit, release of interest;
- [CP 6]: allegation;
- [CP 7-CP 8]: attestation as to papers (the ship's pass was left at Leghorn to condemn her; a parcel of private merchants' letters was also left), and abstract and translation of the remaining 69 ship's papers.
Ship's Papers, now numbered SP 1-SP 69 [67 bills of lading, 2 manifests].
[Decision: condemned as prize, 6 September 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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- Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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