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Ship's name: Spanish galleons from the Battle of Vigo. Nationality: Spanish Port(s)...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/231
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1702
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Ship's name: Spanish galleons from the Battle of Vigo.
Nationality: Spanish
Port(s) of departure: Veracruz, Mexico.
Destination(s): Vigo, Spain.
Type of voyage: Part of the Spanish Fleet under the command of General Don Manuel de Belasco Tejada (Velasco y Tejada).
Particulars: Merchant and private correspondence including that of Captain Don Pedro Munarriz, Captain Juan Matheos Yanez (Yañez) and Bernardo de Rolandegui, Procurator General of the Jesuits.
A label in a small fragment of sack reads: 'In this bag are papers and packets relating to the Spanish Galleons taken at Vigo which were brought in by Captain Thomas Dilkes, 1 December 1702'. This enclosure contains a religious illustration and Holy Communion notes from Mexico Cathedral, dated 1700.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Language (The language of the record)
- Spanish
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- Open Document, Open Description
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High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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