Vessel
Mercedes
Mercedes: 4 recorded visits to the Californias, 1797 to 1801, calling at Monterey, Loreto. Flag Spain. Every visit cited to its source.
- Flag
- Spain
- Recorded span
- 1797 to 1801
- Recorded visits
- 4
- Anchorages
- Monterey, Loreto
- Record status
- reviewed
Recorded visits
1797-10-01 · Monterey
port-call? alta departed
Cuenta de la salida de la Balandra *Mercedes* para el Yaqui (1 Oct 1797) — a Spanish supply sloop. [Leaf-verified; the prior excerpt captured a neighboring Font/Roca record on the same leaf.]
1799-06-28 · Loreto
port-call? baja warship seized|refused
Investigation into the 1799 capture of the Spanish sloop *Mercedes* by a British squadron in the Gulf of California (Ang
1799-07-06
unlocated baja seized
THE CLOSING DOCUMENT ('Fin del tomo 17'): re the seizure (*apresamiento*) of the balandra under Bernardo Suárez and the
1801
unlocated alta
Mail bergantín lost — balandra *Mercedes* substituted; *Horcasitas* investigated
- Archives of California (BANC MSS C-A), C-A 11, doc 39 (scan n88)
- Archives of California (BANC MSS C-A), C-A 11, doc 65 (scan n125–126)
- Bancroft, History of California: Bancroft HoC II narrates this vessel in 1801 (Trinidad)
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