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Captured ship: Europa of Dublin (original master James Cooke of Dublin, the French...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/259
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This record is about the Captured ship: Europa of Dublin (original master James Cooke of Dublin, the French... dating from 1756 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 30/259
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1756
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Captured ship: Europa of Dublin (original master James Cooke of Dublin, the French prize-master Jean Elie of Tourville, and the English prize-master Andrew Mitchelson: owner, Thomas Blair of Dublin).
History: an Irish merchant ship (crew of 12 men on departure), bound from Jamaica to Holyhead and Dublin, laden with sugar, rum, cotton, coffee, mahogany planks and logwood; taken on 21 December 1756 in latitude 49°20'N, and longitude 10° of the meridian of Tenerife by the French privateer Le Machaut (Denis Francois Le Maugnonnet [?] commanding), and sent in for Brest, but was retaken on 23 December 1756 in latitude 48°30'N by the English privateer Defiance (John Dyer commanding), and brought first into Mount's Bay within the port of Penzance, and then into Falmouth.
Documents: c 250 personal and business letters for onward delivery (almost all in English, a few in Spanish), consisting of
- commercial correspondence with merchants in London, Bristol, Liverpool and Manchester;
- details of the sale of 202 enslaved people in Jamaica on behalf of Richard Nicholls and Company of Liverpool;
- a copy of the Jamaica Courant and Weekly Advertiser for 28 September 1756;
- personal letters to many parts of England and Ireland, from correspondents in Kingston and Port Royal, Jamaica.
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See HCA 32/189/22 for the court papers, ship's papers and more mail
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English and Spanish
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 30
High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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