Catalogue description Captured ship: Santa Teresa de Jesus of Callao (master Bartholome de Urrunaga). History:...

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Details of HCA 32/154/6
Reference: HCA 32/154/6
Description:

Captured ship: Santa Teresa de Jesus of Callao (master Bartholome de Urrunaga).

History: a Spanish register ship (300 tons, 42 men -"whites, blackes and Indians" - and 7 male and 3 female passengers), bound from Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador to Callao, Peru, laden with boards, mangrove tree masts, indigo, snuff, hides, bale goods, wax, cloth and dollars; taken on 26 October / 6 November 1741 in latitude 10° by HMS Centurion (George Anson commanding) [and condemned at sea under a special commission issued to Commodore Anson's expedition].

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 3]: two examinations taken on commission at London, commissioners' affidavit, docket;
  • [CP 4]: allegation;
  • [CP 5-CP 6]: attestation as to papers, translation of the ship' register.

Ship's Paper numbered SP 1, the ship's register.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 2 August 1744]

Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/2
Date: 1744
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Spanish
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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