Catalogue description Captured goods: taken from the St Antoine (master Etienne Record). History: a French...

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Details of HCA 32/94/9
Reference: HCA 32/94/9
Description:

Captured goods: taken from the St Antoine (master Etienne Record).

History: a French merchant ship bound from Santa Cruz, Tenerife to Marseilles, laden with cocoa, wine and 8,500 dollars belonging to Spanish subjects; stopped and let go in the Straits of Gibraltar on 25 July 1743 [OS ?] by HMS Saltash (Edward Spragge commanding), but the money removed and freight of 2,000 dollars paid to the master.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 2]: commisioners' affidavit, standing interrogatories;
  • [CP3-CP 4]: examinations of George Beaumont (then lieutenant in HMS Saltash), Thomas Cox (then carpenter), Richard Donovan (then midshipman);
  • [CP 5-CP 8]: releases [renunciations of any claim to prize] in the said 6,500 dollars by the said George Beaumont, Thomas Cox and Richard Donovan, April 1746.

[Decision: ship released by captor, no court decision recorded]
Date: 1746
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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