Captured ship: Endeavour of Cork (master Philip Hogan). History: captured and condemned...

Captured ship: Endeavour of Cork (master Philip Hogan).

History: captured and condemned in Spain; rebought by master

History: an Irish merchant ship (sloop, 50 tons, 4 men), previously taken in about April 1742 by the Spanish and brought first into Melilla in Barbary, and then into Malaga and condemned as prize, where Philip Hogan bought her and the cargo; now bound from Gibraltar, Zante, Venice and Gallipoli via Malaga to Hamburg, laden with currants, cream of tartar, orphament [orpiment?], roman vitriol and oil of amber ['apothecary drugs'], pumice stone, fustic wood and Malaga wine; taken on 10 August 1742 about 100 leagues west of Scilly by HMS Deal Castle (Jacob Elton commanding) and brought into Portsmouth.

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 2]: standing interrogatories, two examinations, commissioners' affidavit [one document] and a parchment wrapper [a re-used parchment indenture];
• [CP 3-CP 4]: demand by Hogan to the prize agent for delivery to him of the sloop and cargo, October 1742, with attestation of a witness to his signing, January 1743;
• [CP 5-CP 6]: attestation and claim of merchants, October 1742;
• [CP 7]: allegation, October 1742;
• [CP 8]: attestation with three copy bills of lading for Hamburg merchants;
• [CP 9-CP 10]: commission of appraisement, with inventory of the ship and cargo;
• [CP 11-CP 15]: special interrogatories on the part of the owners, with allegation, and Spanish papers and translations of the condemnation and purchase of the Endeavour at Malaga;
• [CP 16-CP ]: commission for examinations to be taken at Cork, with allegations, affidavits and the examinations [all originally sealed and sewn together], returned into court in July 1743;
• [CP -CP ]: commission for examinations to be taken at Hamburg, with allegations, affidavits and the examinations [all originally sealed and sewn together], returned into court in August 1743;
• [CP -CP ]: two attestations as to papers.

Documents: allegations for captor and claimants; claims with attestations; examinations on standing interrogatories and allegations for claimants; appraisement;

Ship's Papers:-

3 books, marked SP A-SP C:-

• SP A: a book kept from 1718 to 1742 by consecutively Bartholomew Hogan, and Daniel Hogan, of memoranda, accounts and letters relating to Irish trade with Portugal, Spain, France and Italy on several ships;
• SP B: a small memoranda book;
• SP C: a log and private journal, including fears of piracy and mutiny by the 4 crew on a voyage from Cork to Venice, 1741-1742.

59 ship's papers, numbered SP 1a-SP 50, with numbers from 1 to 11 being 2 papers, a and b: many being business and personal letters for the master and crew. SP 38 and 39 are missing.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 15 December 1743]

See also IND 1/9022, f55