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Captured ship: Clapham Galley of Guernsey (master Peter Ougier). History: an English...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/101/14

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Reference
HCA 32/101/14
Date
1742
Description

Captured ship: Clapham Galley of Guernsey (master Peter Ougier).

History: an English merchant ship (160 tons), bound from South Carolina to London, laden with rice, pitch, tar, turpentine, and brazilite, in dreadful weather; taken on 20 March 1742 in 49º by the Spanish privateer El Galgo of San Sebastian (which was then itself taken by HMS Hampshire and Ougier liberated) and brought into Ribadios and condemned, but sent for sale to San Sebastian; en route was retaken on 9/20 May 1742 nine leagues off Santander by HMS Launceston (Peter Warren commanding) and HMS Port Mahon (Hon Edward Aylmer commanding), and brought first into Plymouth, and then into Portsmouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, wrapper using an unrelated indenture [one document];
  • [CP 2-CP 6]: attestations and claims of the master and Nicholas Dobree as owners;
  • [CP 7]: affidavit of the master on hearing of the recapture;
  • [CP 8]: allegation;
  • [CP 9]: attestation as to the state of the post between England and Spain;
  • [CP 10-CP 14]: attestation as to evidence requested from Spain about the condemnation of the Clapham Galley, with related correspondence and a copy certificate of the decree of condemnation and translation [the certificate is unfortunately about the English ship Charles, not the Clapham Galley].

[Decision: condemned as prize, 3 March 1743, but appealed]

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

See also IND 1/9022, f33v-34. Appeal papers are at HCA 42/26/14

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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/C14512601/

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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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