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Captured ship: Nuestra Señora de Misericordia or La Vierge de la Misericorde of Martinique...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/135/9

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This record is about the Captured ship: Nuestra Señora de Misericordia or La Vierge de la Misericorde of Martinique... dating from 1741 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 32/135/9
Date
1741
Description

Captured ship: Nuestra Señora de Misericordia or La Vierge de la Misericorde of Martinique (master Jacques Laurent).

History: a French ship carrying Spanish goods (70 tons, 12 men), bound from Seville to Lisbon, laden with lemons, olives and biscuits; taken on 9/20 February 1741 off Cape Vincent by the privateers Young Eagle (Philip Dumaresq commanding) and Vernon (George Willis commanding), and brought into the River Thames.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [Examinations taken in London, see: HCA 13/89, fos 254, 260-261]
  • [CP 1]: attestation as to the perishing nature of the cargo;
  • [CP 2]: claim of Sebastian Bolasco of Genoa, brought into court 21 April 1741;
  • [CP 3-CP 4]: commission of appraisement, appraisement, brought into court 30 April 1741;
  • [CP 5-CP 7]: two further sets of claims from Genoese merchants, one translation, docket, brought into court May–-July 1741;
  • [CP 8-CP 10]: attestation as to papers, three separate translations of the ship's papers.

Ship's Papers marked SP A-SP C.

[Decision: restored 3 September 1741]

Related material

See also IND 1/9022, f168v

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and Spanish
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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