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Captured ship: Marie de Pontchartrain of St Malo (commander Henry Arson). History:...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1904/6

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This record is about the Captured ship: Marie de Pontchartrain of St Malo (commander Henry Arson). History:... dating from 1694 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference

HCA 32/1904/6

Date

1694

Description

Captured ship: Marie de Pontchartrain of St Malo (commander Henry Arson).

History: a French privateer (250 tons, 28 guns, 152 men) bound from St Malo on a cruise; taken on 3/3 September 1694 off the Scilly Isles by HMS Foresight (John Manston commanding) and HMS Reserve (Isaac Townsend commanding), and brought into Plymouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers numbered CP 1-CP 3:

  • [CP 1]: two examinations;
  • [CP 2]: allegation;
  • [CP 3]: docket for the ship's papers.

Ship’s Papers numbered SP 1-SP 2, commissions.

[Decision: ship and cargo condemned, 20 September 1694].

Note

Extra information added from IND 1/9014, p.203

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference

HCA 32/28, HCA 32/22, HCA 32/39

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English and French

Closure status

Open Document, Open Description

Record URL
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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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Records of the High Court of Admiralty and colonial Vice-Admiralty courts

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Within the series: HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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Within the piece: HCA 32/1904

Prize Papers, for ships beginning with M. (Described at item level).

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