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Captured ship: Francis or, as a Spanish prize, Alcoro (master Fortescue Vernon, or...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/111/17

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Reference
HCA 32/111/17
Date
1744
Description

Captured ship: Francis or, as a Spanish prize, Alcoro (master Fortescue Vernon, or the Spanish prize-master, Bizante Cehalas).

History: an English ship (100 tons), bound from Charleston, South Carolina to Cowes, laden with rice, planks, cotton and rum; taken on 4 May 1744 by a Spanish privateer; retaken on 19 May by the privateer Vulture (Hugh Bromedge commanding), and brought first into Kinsale, and then into Bristol.

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 2]: attestation and claim by the merchant Francis Dalby;
  • [CP 3-CP 4]: commission of appraisement;
  • [CP 5-CP 6]: attestations of Dalby and Benjamin Lumley;
  • [CP 8]: allegation;
  • [CP 9-CP 10]: attestations of Dalby and Charles Allen, the latter relating to an attempted embezzlement of cargo by the captors between Kinsale and Bristol.

Ships' Papers, numbered SP 1-SP 2:

  • SP 1: bill of lading issued at Charleston;
  • SP 2: invoice issued for a cargo of rice.

[Decision: restored paying 1/2 salvage, 1 December 1744]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Related material

Examinations and other papers are with those of the Dursley Galley in HCA 32/106/24

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/111/1/17; HCA 32/106/26
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512876/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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