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Captured ship: Santo Christo del Portal y Nuestra Senora de la Soledad (Don Pedro...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/100/18

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This record is about the Captured ship: Santo Christo del Portal y Nuestra Senora de la Soledad (Don Pedro... dating from 1742 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
HCA 32/100/18
Date
1742
Description

Captured ship: Santo Christo del Portal y Nuestra Senora de la Soledad (Don Pedro de Balparda commanding).

History: a Spanish privateer (a barcalonga, 25 tons, 2 carriage guns, 12 swivel guns, 58 men); taken in fight on 9 Sept 1742 off Dieppe by HMS Kinsale (John Hamilton commanding), and brought into Portsmouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit [one document];
  • [CP 2]: part of an unrelated indenture used as a wrapper, with address etc on the back;
  • [CP 3]: allegation;
  • [CP 4]: translation of the 1 ship's paper.

Ship's paper numbered SP 1.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 23 October 1742]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/2
Related material

See also IND 1/9022, f35

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/C14512577/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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