Captured ship: Marquis De Tourny of Bordeaux (master Laurens Domé). History: a French...

Captured ship: Marquis De Tourny of Bordeaux (master Laurens Domé).

History: a French merchant ship with a letter of marque (460 tons, guns, 59 men, 100 soldiers and 12 passengers) bound from Rochefort to Quebec, laden with wine, brandy, gunpowder, cables, cordage and other naval and warlike stores; taken on 7/18 April 1748 in latitude 46°40' near Cape Finisterre by the privateer London (Joseph Barker commanding), and brought into Portsmouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations taken at Falmouth, commissioners' affidavit, brought into court 2 May 1748;
• [CP 6-CP 10]: standing interrogatories, three examinations taken at Plymouth, commissioners' affidavit, brought into court 14 May 1748;
• [CP 11]: additional interrogatories as to ships in company during the capture and the chase, brought into court May 1748;
• [CP 12]: release of their right in a prize to the owners of the privateers Tyger and the Tygeress;
• [CP 13-CP 16]: additional interrogatories, 2 examinations taken at Bristol on 6 June 1748, commissioners' affidavit, brought into court 18 June 1748;
• [CP 17-CP 33]: standing interrogatories, additional interrogatories, 14 examinations taken at Bristol, commissioners' affidavit, brought into court 18 June 1748;
• [CP 34-CP 38]: additional interrogatories, three examinations taken at Bristol, commissioners' affidavit, brought into court 21 June 1748;
• [CP 39]: two attestations of two tidesmen, Robert Knipper and Joseph Seal;
• [CP 40]: allegation;
• [CP 41-CP 42]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 18 ship's papers.

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-SP 18.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 28 July 1748]