Catalogue description Captured ship: Le Modeste (master François Thiercelin). History: a French East India...

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Details of HCA 32/133/17
Reference: HCA 32/133/17
Description:

Captured ship: Le Modeste (master François Thiercelin).

History: a French East India Company merchant ship with a letter of marque (600 tons, 95 men), bound from La Rochelle to the East Indies, laden with beef, wine, flour, tar, iron, salt, cables and powder; taken on 4/15 May 1747 in latitude 42,5° by Admiral Anson'’s squadron, and brought into Portsmouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: allegation;
  • [CP 7-CP 8]: attestation as to papers and abstract and translation of the 19 ship's papers.

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-SP 19.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 23 June 1747]

Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1747
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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