French captured ships

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AvM
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French captured ships

Post by AvM »

I am looking for any list of French ships catured by British ships.
There were sso many , so I am interested ion any ships from ca 100t ++
but also privateers.

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Cy
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Re: French captured ships

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If you use the captures tab on Three Decks there are 2,662 captures of French vessesl by the British listed. It's a start.
OK, it was me, probably!
Grammont
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Re: French captured ships

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The London Gazette published lists of captured enemy vessels sent to the Admiralty by fleet commanders.

Thus the London Gazette of 8 September 1804 has a long list of enemy vessels captured by Commodore Samuel Hood's fleet based at the Leeward Islands between 1 January 1804 and 30 June 1804.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/iss ... /page/1121
AvM
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Re: French captured ships

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Do you know if a list of ships declared as a prizes by
High Court of Admiralty?
Grammont
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Re: French captured ships

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Steel's Prize Pay Lists [1805] lists over 2100 prize money payments between 1794 and 1803. https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/ ... 0QC?gbpv=1
jon_ystrad
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Re: French captured ships

Post by jon_ystrad »

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov. ... /C16424129
is a record from the Admiralty's prize court papers

If you up the tree there, you will get to the heading you want to access the rest, i.e. :-

You are in:-
The National Archives' catalogue
HCA - Records of the High Court of Admiralty and colonial Vice-Admiralty courts
Division within HCA - Records of the Instance and Prize Courts
HCA 32 - High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Papers
Subseries within HCA 32 - Seven Years War, 1756 to 1763
HCA 32/176A - Ships captured as prizes, with names beginning with the letter C. (Described at item level)
This record (browse from here by hierarchy or by reference)
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