Catalogue description Captured ship: L'Invincible (commander Jacques Grout de St George). History: a French...

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Details of HCA 32/118/14
Reference: HCA 32/118/14
Description:

Captured ship: L'Invincible (commander Jacques Grout de St George).

History: a French warship (1,500 tons, 74 guns, 700 men), bound to convoy a French East India Company ship [Philibert ?] from Rochefort to Madeira or Canada; taken in fight [after the first battle of Cape Finisterre] on 6/17 May 1747 north of Cape Finisterre by Vice-Admiral George Anson's squadron, and brought into Portsmouth.

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: allegation;
  • [CP 7]: letter detailing the ships present at the capture;
  • [CP 8-CP 9]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 6 ship's papers.

Ship’s Papers numbered SP 1-SP 6.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 23 June 1747]
Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1747
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HCA 32/118/1/14; HCA 32/122/3
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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