Catalogue description Captured ship: L'Aigle Volant (master Dutertre Le Marie). History: a French privateer...

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Details of HCA 32/95/23
Reference: HCA 32/95/23
Description:

Captured ship: L'Aigle Volant (master Dutertre Le Marie).

History: a French privateer (140 tons, 14 carriage guns, 9 swivel guns, 110 men); taken on 15/26 June 1744 about 40 leagues from the Island de Groy on the coast of France 26 June 1744 by the privateer Adventure of Portsmouth (Thomas Israel commanding) and brought into Falmouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three exmainations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: allegation;
  • [CP 7]: translation of the 1 ship's paper.

Ship's Papers: SP 1, the privateer's commission

[Decision: condemned as prize, 2 August 1744]
Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1744
Related material:

See also IND 1/9023, f2
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HCA 32/95/2/3
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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