Catalogue description Captured ship: Walpole (master William Jackson, prize master Julien Tanquerel). History:...

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Details of HCA 32/159/5
Reference: HCA 32/159/5
Description:

Captured ship: Walpole (master William Jackson, prize master Julien Tanquerel).

History: an English merchant ship (200 tons, 85 men, the French prize crew and 2 English prisoners of war, originally bound from Whitehaven to Maryland, but taken on 28 April / 8 May 1745 by the French privateer La Grande Biche, retaken on 5/16 May 1745 by the English privateer Greyhound, taken again 7/18 May 1745 by seven French privateers and brought into Newfoundland, where the cargo was condemned); now bound from Newfoundland to any port in France, laden with cod; taken on 2/13 October 1745 off Ushant by HMS Fly (Patrick Baird commanding) and brought into Dartmouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 3]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 4]: attestation and claim;
  • [CP 5]: allegation;
  • [CP 6-CP 7]: attestation as to papers, and abstracts and translations of the 23 ship's papers.

Ship’s Papers numbered SP 1-SP 23, copy letters of marque, bills of lading, muster rolls, ships' passes.

[Decision: cargo condemned, ship restored paying 1/8 salvage, 10 December 1745]
Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1745
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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