Catalogue description Captured ship: Nuestra Senora del Carmen y Animas of San Sebastian (commander Pedro...

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Details of HCA 32/136/10
Reference: HCA 32/136/10
Description:

Captured ship: Nuestra Senora del Carmen y Animas of San Sebastian (commander Pedro Ignacio Goicoechea, later Francisco de Larrea).

History: a Spanish privateer (180 tons, 19 guns, 181 men), bound from San Sebastian on a cruise; taken on 10/21 November 1741 in latitude 48° by HMS Rupert (John Ambrose commanding), and brought into the River Thames.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [Examinations taken in London, see: HCA 13/89, fos 199-200]
  • [CP 1-CP 4]: standing interrogatories, two examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 5]: allegation;
  • [CP 6-CP 7]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 4 ship's papers.

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-SP 4.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 20 January 1742]
Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/2
Date: 1741
Related material:

See also IND 1/9022, f171
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Spanish
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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