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Captured ship: El Gran San Juan or Grand St John otherwise La Maravilla of San Sebastian...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/114/12

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This record is about the Captured ship: El Gran San Juan or Grand St John otherwise La Maravilla of San Sebastian... dating from 1747 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HCA 32/114/12

Date

1747

Description

Captured ship: El Gran San Juan or Grand St John otherwise La Maravilla of San Sebastian (master Francisco Graziet de Zavala).

History: a Spanish privateer (280 tons, 20 carriage guns, 219 men); taken on 6/17 December 1747 in latitiude 48º about 100 leagues south west of Scilly, by HMS Falkland (Hon George Byron commanding), and brought into Plymouth.

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: allegation;
  • [CP 7-CP 8]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 2 ship's papers.

Ship’s Papers marked SP A-SP B.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 20 January 1748]

Note

Extra information from HCA 30/775/4

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English and Spanish

Closure status

Open Document, Open Description

Record URL
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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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