Catalogue description Captured ship: St Antonio e Almas Santas (master Antonio Fernandes). History: a...

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Details of HCA 32/97/36
Reference: HCA 32/97/36
Description:

Captured ship: St Antonio e Almas Santas (master Antonio Fernandes).

History: a Portuguese merchant ship (500 tons, 17 guns, 85 men) bound from Calicut to St Thome [Santhome, India], laden with cotton, pepper, timber, plank, china, pitch and coir cordage, and with a private adventure of arrack to sell at Fort St David; taken on 8 May 1747 four leagues east of Fort St David's roads on suspicion of carrying French goods by HMS Medway's Prize (William Holmes commanding) goods taken and sold at Fort St David, [Cuddalore, India] 8 May 1747.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 4]: 4 examinations taken at Fort St David
  • [CP 5]: an account of the sale of goods taken out of the ship, June 1747;
  • [CP 6]: allegation, 1750;
  • [CP 7]: allegation, 1752;
  • [CP 8-CP 9]: attestation and account of sales [in 1747], 1752
  • [CP 10-CP 11]: attestation and translation of the 3 ship's papers, 1747.

Ship's Papers: SP 1- SP 3, with 3 being a letter in French.
Date: 1747
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Miscellaneous
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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