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Captured ship: La Comtesse de la Marck of Morlaix (master Nicholas Anthon.) History:...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/100/23

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HCA 32/100/23
Date
1746
Description

Captured ship: La Comtesse de la Marck of Morlaix (master Nicholas Anthon.)

History: a French privateer (20 tons, 2 cannon, 8 swivel guns, 28 men), built at Kinsale and seized there by French prisoners of war about 18 months previously; taken on 24 August/4 September 1746 six leagues off Salcombe by HMS Dispatch (Henry Barnsley commanding), and brought into Portsmouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit [one document];
  • [CP 2]: allegation;
  • [CP 3-CP 4]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of some of the 35 ship's papers.

Ship's papers numbered SP 1-SP 35, including ransom bills at SP 7-SP 8 of the Neptune (master Lewis Jones) and at SP 9 the Falmouth (master Jacques Robion); SP 5 and SP 27 are missing.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 2 October 1746]

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Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
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/C14512582/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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