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Captured ship: Adventure or Friends' Adventure of Hull or York (master Robert Temperton)....

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1850/12

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This record is about the Captured ship: Adventure or Friends' Adventure of Hull or York (master Robert Temperton).... dating from 1693 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HCA 32/1850/12
Date
1693
Description

Captured ship: Adventure or Friends' Adventure of Hull or York (master Robert Temperton).

History: an English merchant ship (ketch, 40 tons), bound from Cadiz to London, laden with sherry wine, tent wine, raisins, figs; taken in latitude 43°N about 60 leagues off Cape Finisterre by a French man of war (38 guns) and sent in for Brest, retaken on 27 January 1693 about 14 leagues off Ushant by HMS Rupert Prize (Basil Beaumont commanding), and brought into Plymouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:-

  • [CP 1]: examination;
  • [CP 2-CP 4]: commission of appraisement, return and inventory of the ship and cargo, value £514;
  • [CP 5-CP 6]: claims of Edward Thompson and others;
  • [CP 7]: attestation of the mayor of York that the ship and cargo were the property of Edward Thompson alderman of York, Thomas Nisbett and Gilbert Metcalfe.

[Decision: restored, paying salvage, 9 February 1693]

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
HCA 32/13; HCA 32/15
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17514002/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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