Catalogue description Captured ship: San Ziriaco of Corunna (master Joachim de la Solta or Sola). History: a...

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Details of HCA 32/159/16
Reference: HCA 32/159/16
Description:

Captured ship: San Ziriaco of Corunna (master Joachim de la Solta or Sola).

History: a Spanish privateer (150 tons, 16 guns, 60 men and a passenger), bound from Corunna to Havana, Cuba on secret orders, laden with fuses, gunpowder, arms and specie; taken on 26 September / 7 October 1745 in latitude 48°N by the privateer Tryall (James Connor commanding), and brought into Bristol.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: attestation regarding the Mayor of Bristol's concern that gunpowder aboard the ship may be ignited;
  • [CP 7]: allegation;
  • [CP 8-CP 9]: commission of appraisement, inventory;
  • [CP 10-CP 12]: two sets of attestations as to papers, and abstracts and translations of 9 of the ship's papers.

Ship’s Papers in four bundles:

  • SP A1-SP A9/11: certificate of naval enrolment, customs papers, letter of marque, letters, including 9 letters to the Irish crew member Lewis O'Brien, wrapper;
  • SP B1-SP D 75: three bundles of mail-in-transit intended for Havana, a small amount of which was intended to be forwarded from there to Mexico and Guatemala; also includes a copy of Gaceta De Madrid No.33, Mar-Aug 1745.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 4 November 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 Spanish
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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