Catalogue description High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Le Courier de Cayenne (master Pierre Faux)....

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Details of HCA 32/300/8
Reference: HCA 32/300/8
Description:

High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: Le Courier de Cayenne (master Pierre Faux).

History: a French merchant ship (100 tons, 4 guns, 11 men), bound from Cayenne to Bordeaux, laden with sugar, roucou, coffee, spirits, oil cloth, thread and cotton; taken on 22 October 1778 in latitude 45°58 N', longitude 7°30'W from London by the privateer Shaftesbury (John Horsford commanding), and brought into Weymouth.

Court papers: 1-21; Ship's papers: 22-150. [These are interim paper numbers, and are likely to change once more fully catalogued].
Date: 1778
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HCA 32/300/8/1-150
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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