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Captured ship: L'Expedition of Bordeaux, formerly Le St Pierre (master was Robert...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/109/12

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Reference
HCA 32/109/12
Date
1745
Description

Captured ship: L'Expedition of Bordeaux, formerly Le St Pierre (master was Robert Laville from Bordeaux via Guinea to Martinique, then Arnaud Petit from Martinique).

History: a French merchant ship with a letter of marque (160 tons, 10 guns, 36 men) bound from Martinique to Bordeaux, laden with sugar, coffee, logwood and 11 elephant's teeth from Guinea [ans so a slave trader]; taken in fight on 18 February/1 March 1745 in latitude 47ºN by the privateer Prince Charles (Charles Gwynne commanding), and brought into Bristol.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: attestation by the prize master that the ship was very leaky through damage, and the cargo damaged before arrival and in need of immediate unloading;
  • [CP 7]: allegation;
  • [CP 8-CP 9]: commission of unlivery, and inventory of the unloaded cargo;
  • [CP 10-CP 11]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 17 ship's papers.

Ship's Papers, numbered SP 1-SP 17, including four death certificates from the hospital at St Louis, Martinique.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 9 April 1745]

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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