Catalogue description Captured ship: L'Acacia otherwise Lacassiat of Calais (master Antoine Portier). History:...

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Details of HCA 32/97/2
Reference: HCA 32/97/2
Description:

Captured ship: L'Acacia otherwise Lacassiat of Calais (master Antoine Portier).

History: a French privateer (5 tons, 1 gun, 20 men), taken on 15/26 November 1745 two leagues west of Dungeness by the privateer Carlisle (William Owen commanding) and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court papers:

  • [CP 1- CP 4]: standing interrogatories, two examinations, commissioner's affidavit;
  • [CP 5]: allegation;
  • [CP 6-CP 7]: attestation and translation of ship's papers.

Ship's papers:

  • SP 1: privateer's commission;
  • SP 2: muster roll.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 4 February 1746]
Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1745
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Dutch
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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