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Captured ship: Le Phelypeaux otherwise Le Phelipeaux or Le Phoelipeaux of St Malo...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/143/8

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This record is about the Captured ship: Le Phelypeaux otherwise Le Phelipeaux or Le Phoelipeaux of St Malo... dating from 1746 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HCA 32/143/8

Date

1746

Description

Captured ship: Le Phelypeaux otherwise Le Phelipeaux or Le Phoelipeaux of St Malo (master Pierre Guillaume Du Ruble or Duruble).

History: a French ship (180 tons, 30 guns, 45 men), bound from Marseilles to St Malo, laden with oil, cotton, sulphur, bird seed, and dyewood; taken on 16/27 March 1746 off the Lizard by HMS Hampton Court (Savage Mostyn commanding), and brought into Plymouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: allegation;
  • [CP 7-CP 8]: attestation as to papers, and abstracts and translations of the 4 ship's papers.

Ship’s Papers numbered SP 1-SP 4, customs paper, ship's pass, letter of marque, muster roll.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 29 April 1746]

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Extra information from HCA 30/775/4

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The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)

Language

Miscellaneous

Closure status

Open Document, Open Description

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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