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Captured ship: St Antoine or St Anthony of Dunkirk (master Antoine Schepious). History:...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1855/6

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Reference
HCA 32/1855/6
Date
1691
Description

Captured ship: St Antoine or St Anthony of Dunkirk (master Antoine Schepious).

History: a French merchant ship (80 tons, 6 men and a boy), bound from Dunkirk to Nantes, in ballast; taken on 10/20 February 1690/1, en route to Nantes by the privateer Elizabeth and Catherine (William Young commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:-

  • [CP 1]: one examination;
  • [CP 2-CP 4]: commission of examination, interrogatories, two further examinations;
  • [CP 5]: allegation.

Ship's papers, numbered SP 1-SP 19, including letters, ship's papers, pass, commission: a few relate to the Emanuel (master Adrien de Lange), also taken by Young.

[Decision: condemned, 26 March 1691]

Former reference
HCA 32/33, HCA 32/50; HCA 32/1826
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English, French and Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17847552/

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