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Captured ship: La Renommée (commander François de Saint-Alouarn). Details: a French...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/245
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This record is about the Captured ship: La Renommée (commander François de Saint-Alouarn). Details: a French... dating from 1713-1747 in the series High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 30/245
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1713-1747
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: La Renommée (commander François de Saint-Alouarn).
Details: a French warship (30-gun frigate) on voyage from France to Saint-Domingue; taken in fight on 13/24 September 1747 in latitude 46° 30' by HMS Dover (Washington Shirley commanding), and brought into Plymouth.
Documents (all in French):
- 323-695: mail in transit, including official French government correspondence (letters to the Governor of Saint-Domingue, garrison commanders and other officials), and personal and business letters and letter packets, from various parts of France to Saint Domingue for onward delivery; now sorted by name of the writer
- 696-737: Gazette d'Amsterdam, issues 98-104 (1746); 1-58 (1747), and Gazette d'Utrecht, issues 97-104 (1746); 1-63 (1747) being sent to [Charles de Tubieres] Marquis de Caylus, Governor-General of the [French] Leeward Isles, at Martinique.
Includes:
- account of the First Battle of Cape Finisterre, which took place on 3 May 1747, listing numbers of men and guns carried by all the warships involved, casualties and other details (enclosed with a letter dated 27 August 1747);
- commission from Louis XV appointing Capt St Avoye to the place vacated by the death of Capt de Gras as captain of le Compagnie des Soldats Invalides, dated at Strasbourg, 8 October 1744;
- petition to the Comte de Maurepas from Jean Marie Bernard Faubeau;
- copy of Suite de la Clef, ou Journal Historique sur les Matieres du tems for January 1747;
- simple manuscript music and lyrics for two short songs, one about a lovesick shepherd;
- several petitions to the Marquis de Conflans, Governor-General of Saint-Domingue, including one for employment from a professor of mathematics and correspondent of L'Academie des Sciences;
- printed list of merchant ships arriving at Bordeaux, Nantes and La Rochelle in June 1747, and a table of the total quantities of itemised goods handled by those ports in that month.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See HCA 30/ 244 and HCA 30/246 for more papers and mail; and HCA 32/148/7 for the main collection of ship's papers and court process etc
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4249201/
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High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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