Catalogue description Captured ship: L'Assomption (master Jacques Thomasin or Thomazin). History: a French...

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Details of HCA 32/94/23
Reference: HCA 32/94/23
Description:

Captured ship: L'Assomption (master Jacques Thomasin or Thomazin).

History: a French merchant ship with a letter of marque, bound from Marseilles to Cap Francois, Saint Domingue, laden with wine, brandy, flour, oil, soap, candles, provisions and some goods of the crew, worth in all about 100,000 livres; taken in fight on 18 March 1747, 25 leagues off Cape Spartel, by the privateer Dreadnought (Richard Veale commanding), and brought into Lisbon.

Documents:-

Court papers:

  • [CP 1]: booklet of four examinations taken at Lisbon on the Dreadnought;
  • [CP 2]: attestation;
  • [CP 3]: allegation;
  • [CP 4]: abstract and translation of the 5 ship's papers.

Ship's papers: numbered SP 1-SP 5.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 1 September 1747]
Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1747
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HCA 32/94/2/7
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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