Catalogue description A1. Contested cause. Captured ship: L'Aigle of Bordeaux (master Pierre Dufour). History:...

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Details of HCA 32/1346/1
Reference: HCA 32/1346/1
Description:

A1. Contested cause.

Captured ship: L'Aigle of Bordeaux (master Pierre Dufour).

History: a French merchant ship (460 tons, 39 men), bound from the Isle de France [Mauritius] to Bordeaux, via Ascension Island, laden with sugar, coffee, cotton, pepper, indigo, spices, elephants' teeth, sago, gum, ebony, tortoiseshell, tea, china etc; taken on 30 May 1803 about 30 leagues from Belle Isle, France by HMS Sirius (William Prowse commanding), and brought into Plymouth.

Documents: court papers, ships papers; for mail in transit, see HCA 32/

Date: 1803
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Bundle 1/1
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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