Catalogue description Captured ship: Achille of St Malo (commander Louis Jean François Du Serre). History: a...

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Details of HCA 32/95/1
Reference: HCA 32/95/1
Description:

Captured ship: Achille of St Malo (commander Louis Jean François Du Serre).

History: a French privateer (140 tons, 137 men, 22 carriage guns) bound from St Malo on a cruise; taken on 10 June 1745 by HMS Princess Louisa (William Boys commanding) and HMS Captain (Thomas Griffin commanding) about 16 leagues south of Start [Point], and brought into Plymouth.

Documents:-

Court papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 7]: standing interrogatories, three examinations (of Du Serre, Simon Pinot and Gilles Glau) taken on 3 June 1745, return, attestation, translation and abstract of the 14 ship's papers including 2 letters;
  • [CP 8]: allegation;
  • [CP 9 - CP 13]: three examinations taken in Devon on 7-10 August 1745 (of Guillaume Desbois, Pinot and Glau), standing interrogatories and commisioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 14 - CP 16]: copies of the three examinations of 3 June extracted from the HCA registry.

Ship's papers: numbered SP 1-SP 14, including the muster roll, and orders and letters from Duchenot Chenu, the owner of the privateer, to Du Serre.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 2 July 1745]
Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/1 and HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1745
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HCA 32/95/1/1
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Miscellaneous
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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