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Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Clapham Galley of Guernsey...

Catalogue reference: HCA 42/26/14

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Reference
HCA 42/26/14
Date
1744
Description

Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: Clapham Galley of Guernsey (master Peter Ougier).

History: an English merchant ship (160 tons), bound from South Carolina to London, laden with rice, pitch, tar, turpentine, and brazilite, in dreadful weather; taken on 20 March 1742 in 49º by the Spanish privateer El Galgo of San Sebastian and brought into Ribadios and condemned, but sent for sale to San Sebastian; en route was retaken on 9/20 May 1742 nine leagues off Santander by HMS Launceston (Peter Warren commanding) and HMS Port Mahon (Hon Edward Aylmer commanding), and brought first into Plymouth, and then into Portsmouth.

Manuscript appeal papers: libel, and inhibition and monition, 1744

Note
Some papers added from HCA 42/24
Related material

Original cause papers HCA 32/101/14

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16720421/

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HCA 42

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