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Captured ship: La Renommée (commander François de Saint-Alouarn) Details: a French...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/246
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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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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HCA 30/246
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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): (continued from HCA 30/245 and in HCA 30/246)
SA 1-SA 121: private archive of Captain Saint Avoye, including
- SA 1-SA 62: letters and memoranda;
- SA 63- SA 91: songs and poems (90 and 91 with simple manuscript music and lyrics for two short songs, one about a lovesick shepherd);
- SA 92-SA 119: letters and memoranda; including SA 97-SA 99, three playing cards: a two and a ten of hearts, a queen of clubs; all Paris pattern, one with rough calculations and the other used as a label.
- SA 120-SA 121: commissions from Louis XV appointing St Avoye as captain of the regiment of infantry of Maine, dated at Versailles, 30 May 1731; and as captain of le Compagnie des Soldats Invalides, dated at Strasbourg, 8 October 1744.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See HCA 30/ 244 and HCA 30/245 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4249202/
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HCA 30
High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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