Catalogue description High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: San Carlos of San Sebastian (commander Don...

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Details of HCA 32/448/2
Reference: HCA 32/448/2
Description:

High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: San Carlos of San Sebastian (commander Don Fermin de Orttizberea).

History: a Spanish merchant ship of the Royal Caracas Company of San Sebastian, with commission (frigate, 500 tons, 32 guns, 10 swivels, 173 men), bound from Passaca [Pasaia] to La Guaira, Venezuela, laden with flour, brandy, iron, cordage, bale goods; taken on 8 January 1780 in latitude 42°N by HMS Edgar (John Elliot commanding), one of the fleet of Admiral Rodney and brought into Plymouth.

The San Carlos became the English East India Company ship Hinchinbrooke: see HCA 32/359B/3.

Court papers: 1-14; Ship's papers: 15-18.

[These are interim paper numbers, and are likely to change once more fully catalogued].
Date: 1780
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HCA 32/448/2/1-18
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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