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Captured ship: Le Duc de Guienne (master Pierre Lestourniere). History: a French...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/106/19

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This record is about the Captured ship: Le Duc de Guienne (master Pierre Lestourniere). History: a French... dating from 1735-1745 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
HCA 32/106/19
Date
1735-1745
Description

Captured ship: Le Duc de Guienne (master Pierre Lestourniere).

History: a French merchant ship with a letter of marque (300 tons, 18 guns, 66 men) bound from Martinique to Bordeaux, laden with sugar, coffee and cotton; taken in fight on 24 May / 4 June 1745 about latitude 45° 50' N by the privateers Boscawen (George Walker commanding) and Sheerness (John Furnell commanding), and brought into Bristol.

Le Duc de Guienne was in a convoy of eight ships en route from Martinique, one of which was sunk and five taken in the same action, the others captured being L'Abraham of Nantes (Jacques Berthomé, master), Le St André of Bordeaux (Pierre Gautier, master), La Belle Louise (Jean Fromentin, master) and La Victoire (René Bruslé, master).

Documents:-

Court papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 4]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 5]: allegation;
  • [CP 6]: attestation of papers;
  • [CP 7]: abstract and two translations of the 21 ship's papers in Bundle A.

Ship's Papers:

  • Bundle A, now A1-A21;
  • Bundle B, now B1-B41.

Mail-in-Transit: now numbered C1. Additional mail taken from this ship, if there was any, may have been muddled up at the time with mail taken from other ships of the convoy which is in HCA 32/97/1, Bundle P.

Miscellaneous Papers, from the personal archives of the master and perhaps others, now numbered D1-D10.

Note: There are some letters written by the master of Le Duc de Guienne, Pierre Lestourniere, among the Mail-in-Transit of St Marguerite in HCA 32/130/7.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 9 July 1745]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/1 and HCA 30/775/4
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512755/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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