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Captured ship: St Miguel (commander Lorenzo Belmer). History: a Spanish privateer...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/131/19

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Reference
HCA 32/131/19
Date
1743
Description

Captured ship: St Miguel (commander Lorenzo Belmer).

History: a Spanish privateer (160 tons, 23 guns, 126 men) bound from Bilbao on a cruise; taken [in 1743] about 40 leagues from Cape Finisterre by HMS Monmouth (Charles Wyndham commanding), and brought into the River Thames.

Documents:

  • [CP 1-CP 4]: Standing interrogatories, set of three examinations, commissioner's affidavit, wrapper;
  • [CP 5]: allegation
  • [CP 6-CP 7]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 1 ship's paper.
Ship's paper numbered SP 1.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 6 October 1743]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/2
Related material

See also IND 1/9022, f138

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and Spanish
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14513460/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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