A tiding received from Lisbon, Portugal reported that a British warship commanded by captain Faulkener brought in the captured French East Indiaman Hertog van Chartres [Duc de Chartres]. The French officers were allowed to keep their clothes and other belongings.(1)
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1. The website http://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=16673 supplies more details dealing with this French ship. She was in March 1749 laid down at the shipyard at Lorient and on 23 December of the same year launched and captured on 27 March 1757. Her dimensions were 111’9” (keel)-128’9” (gundeck) x 36’0”x 16’0” French feet with a burthen of 900 tons and a displacement of around 1,400 tons. Her crew numbered 146 men and her armament consisted of 56 guns. She was captured by the HMS Windsor. This was a 60-gun 4th rate launched ta Deptford on 31 October 1695, on 18 November 1725 ordered to be disassembled and to be rebuilt and again launched at Deptford on 27 October 1729, between 1742 and 1745 for the second time rebuild and finally broken up in 1777. With a measurement of 910 long tons/924.6 tons were her dimensions 146’5”(gundeck) x 37’9”x 15’8.5” as for the first time being launched, after 1725 951 long tons/966.3 tons and 144 x 39 x 16.5” and finally after 1745 1,201 long tons/1,722.3 tons and 152 x 42 x 17’10”.
