Catalogue description Captured ship: St Pierre or St Peter of Dieppe (master Jean Maniere or Monier). History:...

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Details of HCA 32/143/10
Reference: HCA 32/143/10
Description:

Captured ship: St Pierre or St Peter of Dieppe (master Jean Maniere or Monier).

History: a French ship (30 tons), bound from Dieppe on a fishing voyage; taken at the end of September 1744 off Le Havre by the privateer Swift (George Hudson commanding), and brought into Dover, and the master then ransomed by Hudson.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 3]: standing interrogatories, one examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 4]: allegation;
  • [CP 5]: attestation as to papers.

Ship’s Paper numbered SP 1, a ransom bill.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 6 September 1744]
Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1744 - 1745
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Part added from HCA 32/144/13
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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