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Manuscript prize appeal No 1127B, from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Sierra Leone, filed in 1813....

HCA 42/501/1127B | High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Papers. Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815. Prize papers in appeals. (Described at item level). | Manuscript prize appeal No 1127B, from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Sierra Leone, filed in 1813. Captured ship: St Joan (master Fortunato Luiz Pinto). Nationality: Portuguese. History: a slave ship, bound from Brazil to the Gold Coast of Africa, laden with rum, tobacco and dry goods, and also 10 enslaved people from the Cape Coast, en route to Lagos; taken on 1 January 1812 by HMS Amelia (Frederick Paul Irby commanding), and brought into Sierra Leone. Ma…

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