Catalogue description Printed prize appeal from the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Diomede....
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Reference: | HCA 45/57/28 |
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Printed prize appeal from the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Diomede. Nationality: French. History: a French warship with 620 men, part of a French squadron defeated and destroyed in the battle of San Domingo on 6 February 1806 by a squadron under Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth. Appellant: 1) Vice Admiral Sir John Thones Duckworth kt and Vice Admiral Richard Dacres, commander-in-chief of HM ships and vessels in the Jamaica station. Respondent: Lord Collingwood, Vice Admiral John Knight and Rear Admiral William Earl of Northesk - Knight and Northesk claiming an interest in the flag eighth of the capture and headmoney arising therefrom; 2) Rear Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane kt, commander-in-chief of HM ships and vessels in the Leeward Islands station v Lord Collingwood, Vice Admiral John Knight and Rear Admiral William Earl of Northesk. Bound printed appeal with manuscript decree of 24 February 1810 (folios 490-505). Decision: against the consolidated appeal and affirmed the sentence appealed from. Folios 490-492: case on behalf of the 1) appellants Duckworth and Dacres; Folio 492: decree; Folios 493-496: case on behalf of the 2) appellant Cochrane; Folios 497-500: case on behalf of the respondents; Folios 501-504: appendix; Folio 505: additional appendix on behalf of the respondents |
Date: | 1810 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
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