Catalogue description Captured ship: La Sérionne of Boulogne (commander Michel Duchesne). History: a French...

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Details of HCA 32/151/6
Reference: HCA 32/151/6
Description:

Captured ship: La Sérionne of Boulogne (commander Michel Duchesne).

History: a French privateer (50 tons, 81 men), bound from Boulogne on a cruise; taken on 31 October / 11 November 1746 off Portland by HMS Jamaica (Marriot Arbuthnot commanding), and brought into Portsmouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: allegation;
  • [CP 7-CP 8]: attestation as to papers, and abstracts and translations of the 115 ship's papers.

Ship’s Papers numbered SP 1-SP 115, letter of marque, muster roll, port papers, cargo lists, accounts, letters, letters of credit, ransom bills.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 15 January 1747]
Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1746
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Part added from HCA 32/153/13
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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