Richard Lucos
| Richard Lucos | |
|---|---|
| Person | Richard Lucos |
| Title | |
| First name | Richard |
| Middle name(s) | |
| Last name | Lucos |
| Suffix | |
| Spouse of | |
| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Shipwright |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | Carpenter, Passenger |
| Associated with ship(s) | |
| Training | Not apprentice |
| Is apprentice of | |
| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | Richard Lucas |
| Has signoff text | Richard Lucos |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
| Has interpreter | |
| Birth street | |
| Birth parish | |
| Birth town | |
| Birth county | |
| Birth province | |
| Birth country | |
| Res street | Ratcliff highway |
| Res parish | Stepney |
| Res town | |
| Res county | Middlesex |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1633 |
| Marriage year | |
| Death year | |
| Probate date | |
| First deposition age | 23 |
| Primary sources | |
| Act book start page(s) | |
| Personal answer start page(s) | |
| Allegation start page(s) | |
| Interrogatories page(s) | |
| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/71 f.163r Annotate |
| Chancery start page(s) | |
| Letter start page(s) | |
| Miscellaneous start page(s) | |
| Act book date(s) | |
| Personal answer date(s) | |
| Allegation date(s) | |
| Interrogatories date(s) | |
| Deposition date(s) | Apr 11 1656 |
| How complete is this biography? | |
| Has infobox completed | Yes |
| Has synthesis completed | No |
| Has HCA evidence completed | No |
| Has source comment completed | No |
| Ship classification | |
| Type of ship | Merchant ship |
| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Richard Lucos (alt. Lucas) (b. ca. 1633; d. ?). Shipwright.
Living in 1656 on Ratcliff highway in the parish of Stepney
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Twenty-three year old Richard Lucos deposed on April 11th 1656 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on interrogatories on behalf o Edward Wood and Company in "A business of Examination of Wittnesses for the perpetuall memorie of the matter on the behalfe of Edward Wood and Companie ffreighter of the shipp the Morning Starr of which Thomas Bennett was Master. [1]
The case concerned the ship the Morning Starr (Master: Thomas Bennet) on her voyage in late 1655 from Barbados to London, but putting into Kingsale in Ireland.
Richard Lucos stated that on the voyage in question he was a "passenger and was entertained upon certaine conditions as carpenter in and aboard the shipp the Morning Starr. Lucos reported the ship receiving much water in her hold on the return home, being "in this deponents judgement about sixe foot water". The water "come into the said shipp by reason of any violent storme, but that it then blew a hard steadie gale of wynd, which in this deponents judegement, and as hee beleeveth occasioned the entrance of the said water". Lucos pointed to a defect in the ship, rather than negligence of the master and company "the said shipp appeared to be defective by giveing way the hoodings end from her stemm whereby the water for the most part entred".[2]
The company "pumped at the chaine pumpe sometimes twice a glasse, and for the most part, kept it constantly goeing, and that shee was freed from the said six foot water in about 6. howers pumpeing or with fower pumpes". He added that "the reasons, as this deponent conceiveth that the water came not to the said chayne pumpe were because the said shipp was then stoaked, and for that the hole above the timbers of the said shipp was stopped by the meanes of the water and dirt comeing in over the said shipps ballast and that the boards being close, one upon another to the well, the water could not come in conveniently".[3]
Lucos concluded that the goods were much damaged by water and that the ship was forced to put into Ireland to preserve herself, her lading and crew and to stop her leaks.[4]
