Catalogue description Captured ship: L'Habile PĂȘcheuse (master Charles Harinck). History: a French privateer...

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Details of HCA 32/116/3
Reference: HCA 32/116/3
Description:

Captured ship: L'Habile PĂȘcheuse (master Charles Harinck).

History: a French privateer (30 tons, 2 guns, 31 men), operating from Dunkirk; taken on 4 April 1748 at Nieuwpoort by the privateer Eagle (John Bazely commanding), and brought into Dover.

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: allegation;
  • [CP 7-CP 8]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 20 ship's papers [the completed ransom bills 7 and 8 for the ships Thomas and Mary of Stockton [see HCA 32/154/10] and Providence were delivered out].

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-SP 6 and SP 9-20.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 10 May 1748]

Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1748
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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