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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Records of the Russian (Crimean) War
Catalogue reference: HCA 33
What's it about?
HCA 33
This series mainly comprises records relating to prize cases in the High Court of Admiralty arising from captures and seizures of enemy or neutral ships during the war with Russia from 1854 to 1855. Naval action took place in the Baltic Sea, the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HCA 33
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Title (The name of the record)
- High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Records of the Russian (Crimean) War
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Date (When the record was created)
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1854-1860
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series mainly comprises records relating to prize cases in the High Court of Admiralty arising from captures and seizures of enemy or neutral ships during the war with Russia from 1854 to 1855. Naval action took place in the Baltic Sea, the White Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and in the Pacific Ocean but suspected vessels were also taken in home waters and seized in home ports. The general location of each action has been included in the description as 'theatre of war'.
The records consist of a wide variety of documents, such as affidavits, eaminations of the captured crew and of the captors, decrees of appraisement and sale, court minutes, abstracts of ships' papers, etc. Occasionally, exhibits, such as ships' logs, have also been preserved.
The records include prize papers, prize appeal papers, returns of Russian vessels captured and condemned, royal warrants, etc.
The miscellanea and miscellaneous administrative papers at the end of the series contains papers relating to a report prepared for the Treasury by the Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty during the Crimean War on the subject of droits of the Crown and of Admiralty during time of war.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The records are catalogued within sub-series.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Some related records are in HCA 40 TS 10 TS 15 TS 45
For related papers of HM Procurator General among the records of the Treasury Solicitor, see particularly:
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- High Court of Admiralty, Prize Court, 1660-1875
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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106 bundles and volumes
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- See Prize Droits by H C Rothery, revised and annotated by E S Roscoe (HMSO, 1915).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8631/
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
108,802 records
Within the department: HCA
Records of the High Court of Admiralty and colonial Vice-Admiralty courts
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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Records of the Russian (Crimean) War
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