Catalogue description Captured ship: L'Aguila or Eagle of San Sebastian (master Louis Grenier). History: a...

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Details of HCA 32/95/4
Reference: HCA 32/95/4
Description:

Captured ship: L'Aguila or Eagle of San Sebastian (master Louis Grenier).

History: a Spanish privateer (140 tons, 12 guns, 110 men); taken on 4 July 1742 by HMS Lyme (John Pritchard commanding) and brought into Plymouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1- CP 4]: standing interrogatories, two examinations, commisioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 5]: allegation;
  • [CP 6-CP 7]: translation of privateer's commission,

Ship's papers: [SP A] the privateer's commission, issued to Don Pedro de Larralde, June 1742.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 5 August 1742]
Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/2
Date: 1742
Related material:

See also IND 1/9022, f5v
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HCA 32/95/1/4
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Miscellaneous
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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