Captured ship: Emanuel otherwise Emmanuel of Hamburg (master Paul Petersen). History:...

Captured ship: Emanuel otherwise Emmanuel of Hamburg (master Paul Petersen).

History: a Hamburg ship (120 lasts, eight men, two boys and three seamen as passengers from Brest), bound from Morlaix to Hamburg, laden with indigo, sugar, butter, honey, paper and coffee; taken on 9/20 March 1747 at Dungeness by the privateer Eagle (John Bazely commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
• [CP 6-CP 7]: an attestation with schedules, and an attestation and claim of the master, May 1747;
• [CP 8]: detailed schedule of attestations brought into court, arranged in the original number assigned by the court to the ship's papers (being the bills of lading), and docketed 'referred to in the Acts of Court'; with [CP 8A], the bill for drawing up the schedule;
• [CP 9/1-CP 9/28]: 26 sets of attestations (with enclosed copy bills of lading), affidavits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Hamburg, Nuremberg, Bremen, Leipzig and Breslau, brought into court in June 1747 (arranged in the original number assigned by the court to the ship's papers, with some numbers missing);
• [CP 10] a loose docket;
• [CP 10-CP 12]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and two translations of the 42 ship's papers [these papers were restored].

Ship's Papers, numbered SP 1 (the bill of lading originally numbered 7).

[Decision: part of the cargo [as in SP 1?] condemned 20 August 1747, the ship and the rest of the cargo restored as neutral, 1 September 1747]

See HCA 32/160 for the warrant of release of ship.