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Captured ship: Fanny and Nancy (master William Toy, or as a French prize, Jean Mirambeau)....

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/112/7

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Reference
HCA 32/112/7
Date
1748
Description

Captured ship: Fanny and Nancy (master William Toy, or as a French prize, Jean Mirambeau).

History: an English merchant ship or billander (120 tons, 2 guns, 11 men and 1 woman), bound from Maryland to Bristol, laden with tobacco, pig iron and staves; taken on 17 / 28 May 1748 in latitude 49°, 155 leagues north-west of Cape Ortegal by the French privateer Temeraire of Bayonne (Pierre Garlon commanding); retaken on 23 May / 3 June 1748 in latitude 46° 46', 54 leagues west of Cape Ortegal by the privateer London (Joseph Barker commanding) in sight of HMS Ranger (Anthony Kerly commanding), and brought into Plymouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6-CP 8]: standing interrogatories, one examination, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 9]: attestation and claim;
  • [CP 10-CP 12]: two sets of special interrogatories and one attestation, relating to disputed joint capture;
  • [CP 13-CP 15]: three allegations;
  • [CP 16-CP 20]: 11 releases;
  • [CP 21-CP 22]: inventory and appraisement;
  • [CP 23-CP 24]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translations of the 6 ship's papers.

Ship's Papers, numbered SP 1-SP 6.

[Decision: restored, paying 1/8 salvage, 28 June 1748, and appealed]

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

12 examinations are in HCA 13/91

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/112/1/7; some papers added from HCA 42/28
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512914/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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