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French captured ships
Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 11:45 pm
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.
AvM
Re: French captured ships
Posted: Thu May 27, 2021 7:02 am
by Cy
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.
Re: French captured ships
Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 9:41 am
by Grammont
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
Re: French captured ships
Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 6:35 pm
by AvM
Do you know if a list of ships declared as a prizes by
High Court of Admiralty?
Re: French captured ships
Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 10:17 pm
by Grammont
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
Re: French captured ships
Posted: Sat May 29, 2021 8:18 am
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)