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: La Charité of Dunkirk (master Godefroy Bachelier). History: French...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/100/11
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This record is about the Captured ship: La Charité of Dunkirk (master Godefroy Bachelier). History: French... dating from 1746 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 32/100/11
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1746
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: La Charité of Dunkirk (master Godefroy Bachelier).
History: French transport ship (125 tons, 12 guns, 28 men), bound from Ostend to the nearest port they could get into on the coast of Scotland [to support the Jacobites], transporting 4 companies of Count Fitzjames' Regiment of Dragoons (16 officers and 160 privates), gunpowder, shot and 2 chests of money containing 36,000 French livres) in company with the Bourbon; taken on 21 February/4 March 1746 by HMS Triton (John Hill commanding) in sight of three other naval ships, and brought first into the Downs, then Margate, then Sheerness.
Documents:-
Court Papers:
- [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations taken at Rochester, commissioners' affidavit;
- [CP 6]: allegation;
- [CP 7]: abstract and translation of the 7 ship's papers.
Ship's papers, numbered SP 1-SP 7 (with SP 1 being an informal attestation in French, dated 18 September 1744, by William Norton an English merchant at Dunkirk, that the crew of the English ship Guillaume Marte have told him that their captain William Saunders was killed before his ship struck to Bachelier, and that contrary stories were put about to discredit Bachelier's reputation.
[Decision: condemned as prize, 14 April 1746]
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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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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512570/
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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