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Captured ship: La Victoire (master René Bruslé). History: a French merchant ship...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/157/4

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Reference
HCA 32/157/4
Date
1745
Description

Captured ship: La Victoire (master René Bruslé).

History: a French merchant ship with a letter of marque (110 tons, 23 men, 6 guns) bound from Martinique to Nantes, laden with sugar, coffee, cotton and cocoa; taken in fight on 25 May / 4 June 1745 in latitude 45°50'N by the privateers Boscawen (George Walker commanding) and Sheerness (John Furnell commanding) and taken into Bristol.

La Victoire was in a convoy of eight ships en route from Martinique, one of which was sunk and five taken in the same action, the others captured being L'Abraham of Nantes (Jacques Berthomé, master), Le St André of Bordeaux (Pierre Gautier, master), Le Duc de Guienne (Pierre Lestourniere, master) and La Belle Louise (Jean Fromentin, master).

Documents:-

Court Papers: now numbered [CP1-CP6]:

  • [CP 1 - CP 3] standing interrogatories; three examinations; commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 4] allegation;
  • [CP 5] attestation as to papers;
  • [CP 6] abstract and translation of the 23 ship's papers in Bundle A.

Ship's Papers:

  • Bundle A: now numbered A1-A23;
  • Bundle B: now numbered B1-B11;
  • [Bundle C]: now numbered C1-C2.

Personal Archive:

  • [Bundle L]: personal archive of Julien Marchand of Nantes, a passenger in La Victoire (transferred from HCA 32/97/1 in January 2018):
    • L1-L2 ship's paper re-used by the court as wrapper for"Receipts of Mr Marchand &c"
    • L3-L43 letters addressed to Marchand, 1743-1744;
    • L44-L124 Marchand's receipts, 1740-1745.

Some mail taken from this ship and muddled up at the time with mail taken from other ships of the convoy is in HCA 32/97/1, Bundle P.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 9 July 1745]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14514046/

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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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