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Captured ship: Adventure (master unknown). History: a French merchant ship (English...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1850/14

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Reference
HCA 32/1850/14
Date
1689
Description

Captured ship: Adventure (master unknown).

History: a French merchant ship (English built, 70 tons but very old, six guns), acting as an escort to a convoy of 14 ships, in ballast; taken in fight (having been run aground at Carteret Bay, Normandy and at last abandoned by her crew on 17 September 1689, by the privateer Painter of Guernsey (John Knap commanding), and brought into Guernsey.

Documents:-

Court Papers:-

  • [CP 1]: 2 examinations;
  • [CP 2-CP 4]: commission of appraisement and 2 appraisements of the ship.

Ships papers: SP 1, an account or memorandum.

[Decision: condemned, 16 February 1693]

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
HCA 32/13; HCA 32/1826
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17514004/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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