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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.
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Captured ship: St Charles de Nantes (master Emanuel Pigeon). History: a French merchant...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/103/17
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This record is about the Captured ship: St Charles de Nantes (master Emanuel Pigeon). History: a French merchant... dating from 1745 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HCA 32/103/17
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1745
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: St Charles de Nantes (master Emanuel Pigeon).
History: a French merchant ship [slave trader] with a letter of marque (a brigantine, English built, 80 tons, 6 carriage guns, 25 men), bound from Nantes for the coast of Guinea, laden with brandy, flour, handkerchiefs, ginghams and 'courries' [cowries?]; taken on 6 April 1745 in 44º30'N off Cape Finisterre by the privateers Lowestoff (Charles Fielding commanding) and Shoreham (Robert Milligen commanding) and brought into Lisbon. [Prisoners from five other French ships were put aboard the St Charles after their capture on 12 April 1745: see HCA 32/155/15]
Documents:-
Court Papers:
- [CP 1]: three examinations taken at Lisbon;
- [CP 2]: allegation;
- [CP 3]: abstract and translation of the 9 ship's papers.
Ship's Papers, numbered SP 1-SP 9. Some letters to Frenchmen at Juda (Whydah or Ouidah, Benin, West Africa) now in HCA 30/239 among papers from the St Philippe and other Bordeaux ships, were probably originally consigned to this ship, as the St Charles had the same captors and was used to convey prisoners from these five ships to Lisbon.
[Decision: condemned as prize, 5 September 1745]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Extra information from HCA 30/775/1 and HCA 30/775/4
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also HCA 32/103/39
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- HCA 32/103/1/17
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Miscellaneous
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512658/
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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