Catalogue description High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Cantabre (master Francois Fugere). History: a...

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Details of HCA 32/287/11
Reference: HCA 32/287/11
Description:

High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: Cantabre (master Francois Fugere).

History: a French merchant ship (380 tons, 2 guns, 26 men), bound from Cap Francois, Saint Domingue to Bordeaux, laden with sugar, cotton, tobacco, coffee, cocoa and indigo; taken on 10 October 1779 by the privateer Ranger (Daniel Dale commanding), and brought first into Kinsale and then into Bristol..

Court papers: 1-8; Ship's papers: 9-10. [These are interim paper numbers, and are likely to change once more fully catalogued].
Date: 1779
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HCA 32/287/11/1-10
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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