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Captured ship: La Conquerante Marie Anne of Dieppe (commander Jacques Anquetil)....
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/100/29
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- HCA 32/100/29
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1745
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: La Conquerante Marie Anne of Dieppe (commander Jacques Anquetil).
History: a French privateer (20 tons, 34 men, 4 boys, 2 carriage guns, 8 swivel guns) bound from Dieppe on a cruise to Calais; taken in fight on 29 July / 9 August 1745 about 18 leagues off Beachy Head after a fight of 4 to 5 hours by the privateer Eagle snow (John Bazeley commanding) and brought into Dover.
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 abstract and translation of the 14 ship's papers.
Ship's papers numbered SP 1-SP 14, and SP 14/1-11.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Extra information from HCA 30/775/1
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Miscellaneous
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16720429/
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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Within the series: HCA 32
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