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Captured ship: Le Conquête d'Angleterre of Calais (master Antoine Gaspard Vital)....

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/101/20

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This record is about the Captured ship: Le Conquête d'Angleterre of Calais (master Antoine Gaspard Vital).... dating from 1748 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 32/101/20
Date
1748
Description

Captured ship: Le Conquête d'Angleterre of Calais (master Antoine Gaspard Vital).

History: a French privateer (6 tons, 2 carriage guns, 4 swivel guns, 19 men); taken on 23 February/5 March 1748 eighteen miles off Newhaven in England, after being chased 6 hours, by the privateer Success (Thomas Hall commanding) in sight of another privateer, and brought first into Newhaven and then into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit, 23 March 1748;
  • [CP 6-CP 10]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit, 12 April 1748;
  • [CP 11]: allegation;
  • [CP 12-CP 13]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 9 ship's papers.

Ship's Papers, numbered SP 1-SP 9, including SP 8/A-C and SP 9/A-H [19 documents].

[Decision: condemned as prize, 23 June 1748]

Note
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/C14512607/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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