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Captured ship: Nuestra Senora de las Nieves y San Juan Baptista or San Juan Baptista...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/134/9

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This record is about the Captured ship: Nuestra Senora de las Nieves y San Juan Baptista or San Juan Baptista... dating from 1742 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
HCA 32/134/9
Date
1742
Description

Captured ship: Nuestra Senora de las Nieves y San Juan Baptista or San Juan Baptista otherwise El Constante of Tenerife (master Francisco Xavier Castellanos).

History: a Spanish merchant ship (260 tons, 24 guns, 50 men, 14 passengers, all Spanish except a French boy saved out of a wreck), bound from La Guaira, Caracas to Santa Cruz, Tenerife, laden with cocoa, dollars in specie, silver and gold; taken in fight on 26 November / 7 December 1741 about 150 leagues east of Bermuda in latitude 33° 30' by HMS Superb (Hon William Hervey commanding), and brought first into Kinsale, and then into Plymouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [Examinations taken in London, see: HCA 13/89, fo. 304];
  • [CP 1-CP 8]: standing interrogatories, five examinations, commissioners' affidavit, additional interrogatories about the crew and prize list of HMS Superb
  • [CP 9]: two allegations;
  • [CP 10-CP 11]: translation of the 2 ship's papers;
  • [CP 12]: docket.

Ship's Papers marked SP A-SP B.

Related material

See also IND 1/9022, f32, f 33

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/101/24
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and Spanish
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14513506/

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