Catalogue description Captured ship: Nossa Senhora de Rozario e Santa Anna (master Manuel Tavares). History: a...

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Details of HCA 32/159/28
Reference: HCA 32/159/28
Description:

Captured ship: Nossa Senhora de Rozario e Santa Anna (master Manuel Tavares).

History: a Portuguese ship (60 tons, 7 men and a boy), bound from San Lucar to Amsterdam, laden with brandy; taken on 30 April / 11 May 1748 off Dungeness by the privateer The Anson (Benjamin Goodwin commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: attestation and claim;
  • [CP 7-CP 9]: commission of appraisal, inventory, rough notes;
  • [CP 10-CP 11]: attestation as to papers, and abstracts and translations of the 10 ship's papers.

Ship’s Papers numbered SP 1-SP 10, bills of lading, customs papers, letter, draft of a ship's log.

[Decision: condemned, 6 December 1748, later appealed]
Date: 1750
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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