Catalogue description Captured ship: Die Stadt von Havre otherwise La Ville de Havre of Hamburg (master Hans...

Captured ship: Die Stadt von Havre otherwise La Ville de Havre of Hamburg (master Hans Heldt).

History: a Hamburg ship (60 lasts, 5 men, a boy and a passenger Louis Antoine de Bazin), allegedly bound from Hamburg to Rouen, laden with steel, copper, wool, smalts and tallow; taken on 12/23 August 1745 off Dungeness by the privateer Carlisle (William Owen commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 7]: standing interrogatories, five examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
• [CP 8]: attestation and claim;
• [CP 9-CP 10]: two schedules of bills of lading with observations;
• [CP 11]: attestation, inventory, commission of appraisement;
• [CP 12a-CP 22b]: 12 sets of attestations, affidavits and claims, with translations, taken and sealed by the ruling auhorities of Hamburg, Lubeck, Berlin and Rostock;
• [CP 23a-CP 23b]: two attestations from Dresden, with translations;
• [CP 24-CP 25]: attestation as to papers including three parcels of papers belonging to the passenger De Bazin (which were restored with the consent of all parties), and abstracts and translations from Low Dutch or High German of the 104 ship's papers (25 of which were restored).

Ship’s Papers numbered SP 1-SP 101, (with 25 gaps - 10, 12, 15-17, 19, 26, 29-30, 36, 38, 42, 44-45, 49, 56, 66, 77, 84, 89, 92, 102-104 restored).

[Decision: part of cargo condemned, the ship and the rest of the cargo restored, 21 March 1746]