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Captured ship: Nuestra Senora de Nazareth y St Luis (master Antonio de Sylva d'Andrade)....

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/136/12

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Reference
HCA 32/136/12
Date
1750
Description

Captured ship: Nuestra Senora de Nazareth y St Luis (master Antonio de Sylva d'Andrade).

History: a Persian East India merchant ship, bound from Sadras to Bengal, laden with silver, rupees and chinaware; taken on 3 August 1747 off Madras by HMS Medway Prize (William Holmes commanding) and HMS Winchester (Thomas Bertie commanding).

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 8]: set of claim, attestations, affidavits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Calcutta on behalf of the now deceased Coja Minas de Tzack, Calcutta merchant, including his will;
  • [CP 9-CP 11]: three release of claims;
  • [CP 12]: account of treasure (rupees/silver) removed from the ship, 26 January 1749/50;
  • [CP 13]: decree for restitution of the scheduled rupees, pronounced by a surrogate of Sir Henry Penrice, 1751;
  • [CP 14-CP 16]: attestation as to papers, and two abstracts and translations of the 28 ship's papers.

Ship's Papers, including letters in Armenian translated into Portuguese, and some in Malabar script, numbered SP 1X-5X, 13X-17X (SP 13X and 14X are in the same document); SP 1-20.

[Decision: cargo restored, 24 June 1751]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Part added from HCA 32/138/26
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Miscellaneous
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14513530/

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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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