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Captured ship: La Toison d'Or of Bordeaux (master Jean Dufourcq or Dufour). History:...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/155/15

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Reference
HCA 32/155/15
Date
1745
Description

Captured ship: La Toison d'Or of Bordeaux (master Jean Dufourcq or Dufour).

History: a French merchant ship (280 tons, 20 guns, 62 men, 3 passengers Jean Claude Clozet, and [sisters] Anne and Gratienne Labastide, aged 19 and 20) bound from Bordeaux to Saint Domingue (in company with five other Bordeaux ships [the St Philippe 'convoy'], four of which were also captured by 3 privateers), laden with soap, oil, wine, butter, beef and other provisions; taken in fight (2-3 hours) on 12 April 1745 off Cape Finisterre, by the privateer Townshend (Nicholas Lewis commanding) and another and brought into Lisbon with the other Bordeaux ships.

Documents: allegation; 3 examinations; 13 ship's papers.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1]: three examinations taken in Lisbon, commissioners' affidavit (of the vice-consul);
  • [CP 2]: attestation by Henry Boyd of London, agent or secretary to the managers of the privateers the Shoreham (Robert Milligen commanding) and the Lowestoff (Charles Fielding commanding) as to the perishing nature of the ships and cargo of the St Philippe, La Reine de France, L'Union, Le Toison D'Or and the St Charles of Nantes (Emanuel Pigeon), all still in Lisbon;
  • [CP 3]: allegation;
  • [CP 4]: abstract and translation of the 13 ship's papers.

Ship’s Papers numbered SP 1-SP 13; SP 14 added in 2021- a unopened letter to Saint Domingue clearly consigned to La Toison d'Or.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 3 October 1745].

[For much other mail in transit consigned to this company of Bordeaux ships, see HCA 30/239-241.

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/1 and HCA 30/775/4
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Miscellaneous
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14514005/

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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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