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Captured ship: Le Fortuné of Bordeaux (master Michel Lacombe). History: a French...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/112/37

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HCA 32/112/37
Date
1747
Description

Captured ship: Le Fortuné of Bordeaux (master Michel Lacombe).

History: a French merchant ship (200 tons, 8 guns, 28 men) formerly La Marie Françoise, and before that a British ship taken by the French c.1745 and condemned in America; bound from Bordeaux to Quebec, laden with wine, brandy and bale goods; retaken in fight on 9/20 July 1747 off the mouth of the Bordeaux River by the privateers Cumberland (John Mauger commanding) and Guernsey (Daniel Perchard commanding), and brought into Guernsey.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 2]: three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 3]: allegation;
  • [CP 4-CP 5]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 27 ship's papers.

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-SP 27.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 1 September 1747]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/112/2/4
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512944/

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