Piece
Former piece now catalogued as HCA 32/8A, HCA 32/8B and HCA 32/8C.
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/8
Former piece now catalogued as HCA 32/8A,HCA 32/8B and HCA 32/8C.
Item
Captured ship: L'Heureux of Bayonne (master Pierre Beatrix). History: a French merchant...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/116/9
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This record is about the Captured ship: L'Heureux of Bayonne (master Pierre Beatrix). History: a French merchant... 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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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HCA 32/116/9
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1747
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: L'Heureux of Bayonne (master Pierre Beatrix).
History: a French merchant ship (150 tons, 24 men), bound from Bayonne to Saint Domingue, laden with wine, pitch, tar, flour, hoops, deal boards, bricks, five-and-twenty hogsheads of salt beef, white glass, almonds and shoes; taken on 17/28 January 1747 in latitude 46° 50' by the privateer Warren Galley of London (Charles Wilson commanding), and brought into Plymouth.
About three days after the capture, by order of the captain of the privateer, the master (Pierre Beatrix) was"putt on board a Dutch ship at Sea in order for him to make the best of his way home to France".
Documents:-
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 5 ship's papers.
Ships Papers: numbered SP 1-SP 5.
Mail-in-Transit: these letters, originally described as a bag of papers, were found intermingled with those of the Renommee in HCA 30/244-246, and moved here in 2018. They have now been arranged in order of sender, and an alphabetical list is included as [0].
Letters from Bordeaux to Saint Domingue etc, in envelopes and packets numbered 1 to 110, with subnumbers below.
[Decision: condemned as prize, 24 February 1747]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Extra information from HCA 30/775/4. Mail-in-Transit added from HCA 30/244-246 October 2018.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14513038/
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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