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Captured ship: L'Heureux Retour (master Raymond Naudin). History: a French merchant...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/116/10

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HCA 32/116/10
Date
1747
Description

Captured ship: L'Heureux Retour (master Raymond Naudin).

History: a French merchant ship (New England built and formerly the [English] Black Ann, 140 tons, 8 guns, 21 men and"two Negros shipped as passengers"), bound from Bayonne to Saint Domingue, laden with nails, coal, bottled beer, beef, brandy, hams, cutlery, dry fish, green oil, paving stones, tobacco, and pipes; taken in fight on 28 June / 9 July 1747at Cape of Macacao, by the privateer Charming Nancy (Philip Winter commanding), in sight of the privateer Cumberland of Guernsey (John Mauger commanding), and brought into Jersey.

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1]: two examinations and commissioners' affidavit from Jersey;
  • [CP 2]: allegation;
  • [CP 3]: attestation as to papers;
  • [CP 4]: abstract and translation of the 18 ship's papers.

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-SP 18.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 1 September 1747]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14513039/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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