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Captured ship: Industry (master Jean Detcheverry as prize master). History: a French...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/118/6

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Reference
HCA 32/118/6
Date
1747
Description

Captured ship: Industry (master Jean Detcheverry as prize master).

History: a French prize (a snow, 50 tons, 75 men before capture on 20 November 1747- including many passengers from Newfoundland to Waterford: originally the French St Bonaventure, taken by HMS Monmouth on 29 November/ 10 December 1746; then as the English ship Industry of Teignmouth (master Thomas Gasking - 'a large man') bound from Newfoundland to Bristol laden with codfish and oil, taken on 20/31 November 1747 by the French privateer La Meduze of Bayonne (Jean Laparade commanding), and now bound for France; retaken on 25 November/ 6 December 1747 north of Cape Ortugal by the privateer Saltash (George Powell commanding), and brought into Portsmouth.

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: affidavit and claim;
  • [CP 7]: order for release;
  • [CP 8-CP 9]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 29 ship's papers.

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-SP 29, including letters (mail in transit and master's archive) in English and French from Newfoundland and at sea, and ship's papers and bills of exchange in English.

[Decision: restored paying 1/2 salvage, 20 May 1748]

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

For the capture of this ship as the St Bonaventure see HCA 32/99/22

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/118/1/6; HCA 32/120/3
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14513078/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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