Catalogue description High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: L'Abondance (commander Guillaume Dumoncelle)....

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Details of HCA 32/260/6
Reference: HCA 32/260/6
Description:

High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: L'Abondance (commander Guillaume Dumoncelle).

History: a French naval transport ship and troopship (360 tons, 75 men, transporting 230 soldiers and 12 officers of the Regiment D'Aquitaine), bound from Brest in convoy for Martinique or Guadeloupe, laden with munitions (2 cannons, 130 cannon balls, 360 bomb shells, 6 bales of soldiers' clothing, 14 chests of muskets, 3 chests of pistols and 1 chest of worms); taken in fight on 12 December 1781 in the Bay of Biscay by HMS Union (John Dalrymple commanding), in sight of Admiral Kempenfelt's squadron [one of 15 naval transports taken in the Second Battle of Ushant], and brought into Plymouth.

Court papers: 1-7; Ship's papers: 8-27. [These are interim paper numbers, and are likely to change once more fully catalogued].
Date: 1781
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HCA 32/260/6/1-27
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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