Captured ship: the Dursley Galley (master William Braginton, then as a Spanish prize,...

Captured ship: the Dursley Galley (master William Braginton, then as a Spanish prize, Don Domingo).

History: an English merchant ship, taken on 4 / 15 May 1744 by the Spanish privateer St Nicholas alias Extravaganza of St Sebastian, when bound from South Carolina to Cowes laden with sugar, rum, cotton, indigo and elephant's teeth [ivory]; and retaken on 27 May / 7 June 1744 in Muros harbour, Galicia, by a boat from the privateer Vulture (Hugh Bromedge commanding), and brought first into Kinsale, and then into Bristol.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1]: two examinations taken at Kinsale in July 1744, commissioners' affidavit (these examinations deal both with the capture and recapture of the Dursley Galley and the capture and recapture, also by the Vulture, of the Francis alias Alcoro, on 26 May / 6 June 1744);
• [CP 2-CP 11]: attestations and claims;
• [CP 12-CP 13]: commission of appraisement, inventory and appraisement;
• [CP 14-CP 19]: attestations relating to expenses of maintaining ship and cargo, etc;
• [CP 20]: allegation;
• [CP 21]: wrapper;
• [CP 22]: account of stores supplied at Kinsale;
• [CP 23-CP 33]: attestations relating to the claim for joint-capture made by Fortescue Vernon, master of the Francis.

[Decision: restored, paying half salvage, 10 December 1744]

Papers of the Francis: HCA 32/111/17