Captured ship: Nosso Sinhora do Carmo y São José or Notre Dame des Carmes et St Joseph...

Captured ship: Nosso Sinhora do Carmo y São José or Notre Dame des Carmes et St Joseph of Lisbon (master Manoel de Bairos or de Baros).

History: a Portuguese ship (150 tons, 9 men and 4 Irish passengers), formerly the English ship America (master Guilan Periquis) that was captured, condemned and sold in Spain, now bound from Bordeaux to Dronton [Trondheim] in Norway, laden with wine, brandy, vinegar, turpentine, rosin, prunes, raisins, orange flower water, capers, truffles, olives, sweetmeats and corkwood; taken on 7/18 November 1747 by the privateer Prince of Wales (John Beal commanding), and brought into Guernsey.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 6]: ten examinations of the crew and passengers with two sets of additional interrogatories, commissioners' affidavit;
• [CP 7]: attestation as to the perishing nature of the cargo;
• [CP 8-CP 11]: three attestations, account of unloading;
• [CP 12]: attestation and claim;
• [CP 13]: allegation;
• [CP 14-CP 16]: attestation as to papers and two sets of abstracts and translations covering the 13 ship's papers in French, Spanish and Portuguese [most of these were returned].

Ship's Papers numbered SP 2, 7 and 8-–10.

[Decision: cargo condemned, ship restored, 31 March 1748]