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Mysterious Shipboard Plunder Amid Atlantic Chase
The Chalford, Captain Lucas, was seized by a Guardia Cotta sloop near the Jamaica run, after a night raid in the Gulf. They stripped the vessel, beat sailors, looted goods, and forced work then released eight days later with little provision. Two other ships, St. Anthony and Stam baline, reported varied fates. The account notes exchanges with Minorca and Gibraltar shipping news, plus local calamities and prices in the market.
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Thomas Grosvenor
London
Sabine
Gibraltar
Charteller
Excise
Covent-Garden
Whitsunday
Greenwich
Charlton
Kent
Hackney Road
Chalford
John Lucas
Jamaica
Gulph
St. Anne’s
Cape Florida
Port Maria
Lucas
Captie
Havanna
St. Anthony
Jepson
Dublin
Cadiz
Malaga
N.S
Stambaline
Harswell
Smyrna
Gibralt
Minorca
Turkey
Algier
South Sea
India
York
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Assurance
Welch
Dicco
Perlite
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