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HCMS Africa (1752)

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Africa (3rd), 74

San Jose (4th)

Details

 

Nationality Spanish
Ordered    
Started 1751-mar-18  
Named    
Launched 1752-nov-20  
Shipyard Cadiz La Carraca
Plans Jorge Juan  
Constructor Mateo Mullan  
Decks 2  
Rate 3rd Rates  
System British  
Crew    
In Service 1753  
Out Service 1806  
Fate Broke up  

 

Dimensions

 

Units Lenght Keel Beam Depth Draught Weight Displacement Source
Codos 91.7' (52.70) 76.7' (44.08) 25' (14.37) 19.6' (11.26) 9.6' (5.52) ? 1,606 Tn.  

 

Armament

 

Guns Date # lbs # lbs # lbs Fires Source
74 1752 28 24 30 18 16 8 1,340 (656)  

 

 

Commanders 

1753-apr-00   Captain Count of Vega Florida.  
1755-mm-00   Captain D. Domingo de Nava.  
1761-mm-00 1763-mm-00  Captain D. Jose de Rojas Recanno.  
1763-mm-00    Captain D. Francisco Cotiella  
1782-oct-20 1783-mar-31  Captain D. Jose Antonio Eulalio de Peralta y Rivera de las Roelas, Marquess of Casares.  
1783-apr-01 1783-sep-01  Captain D. Nicolas Estrada y Posada.  
1783-sep-00   Captain D. Domingo de Nava  
1787-mm-00   Captain D. Bruno Hezeta  

 

Service Record (en castellano todoavante)

1753-apr-00 Left Cadiz for naval testing around Cape St. Vincent with brigs Mercurio & Jupiter.  
1755-apr-00 In ordinary, disarmed at Cadiz.  
1755-mm-00 Patrolled Cape St.Vincent & Azores Islands.  
1760-mm-00 At Cadiz.  
1761-mm-00 At Cadiz, round trip to Canary Islands.  
1762-mm-00 At Cadiz.  
1763-apr-27 Left Cadiz to La Habana with Princesa, Aquiles, Hector & merchant ships San Jose and Sol. (1)
1764-feb-28 Entered at Cadiz from La Habana with Princesa, Galicia, Monarca & merchants with 424,718 pesos.  
1779-jun-00 At El Ferrol.  
1780-mm-00 Joinned from El Ferrol, Adm. Cordoba's fleet.  
1780-aug-00 Captured 53 british ships under Adm. Cordoba's fleet near Madeira Islands.  
1780-mm-00 Entered at Cadiz with Adm. Cordoba's fleet & captures.  
1781-jul-00 Left Cadiz with Cordoba's fleet for the Campaign of Menorca.  
1781-aug-00 2nd Campaign of the British Channel under Cordoba's fleet.  
1781-sep-00 Campaign of Gibraltar.  
1782-oct-20 Battle of Cape Spartel  
1782-dec-00 At Cadiz ready to depart for the Campaign of Jamaica.  
1783-jan-00 At Cadiz ready to depart for the Campaign of Jamaica, suspended due to the Peace.  
1783-mm-00 Left Cadiz to El Ferrol.  
1784-mm-00 Patrolled Cape St. Vincent, St. Maria & Azores islands.  
1787-mm-00 At Cadiz in ordinary, disarmed.  
1797-feb-00 Left Cadiz to scort into Cadiz spanish ships after the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.  
1797-mar-00 At Cadiz, set in ordinary due to lack of crew.  
1797-mm-00 At Cadiz, blocked by Adm. Jervis' fleet.  
1798-jun-00 Without masts, hulked as battery inside Cadiz bay.  
1804-dec-00 At Cadiz in ordinary, disarmed.  
1806-mm-00 At Cadiz, out of Navy service list and/or sold?  
1809-mm-00 Broke up at La Carraca, Cadiz.  

 

Actions & Battles 

1782-oct-20 Battle of Cape Spartel

 

Notes

Was the first ship built at the shipyard of La Carraca & the first using Jorge Juan's british system.

(1) Transported 139 officials, 2,210 soldiers, 1,530 quintales of powder , 2,106 rifles, naval suplies & 106 naval workers.

 

Sources (research by Santiago Gomez)

Artiñano y de Galdácano, Gervasio. "La arquitectura naval española (en madera)". Madrid. 1920. 

 

Castanedo Galán, Juan Miguel. "Guarnizo. Un astillero de la Corona". Editorial Naval, Madrid, 1993. 

 

Fernández de Navarrete, Martín. "Colección de opúsculos". Tomo II, Madrid, 1848. 

 

González-Aller Hierro, José Ignacio. "La campaña de Trafalgar (1804-1805). Corpus Documental". 2 tomos, Ministerio de Defensa, Madrid, 2004. 

 

Juan-García Aguado, José María de. "José Romero Fernández Landa. Un ingeniero de Marina en el siglo XVIII". Servicio publicaciones Universidad de La Coruña, Monografías, nº 59, 1998. 

 

Quintero González, José, "La Carraca. El primer arsenal ilustrado español (1717-1776)", Ministerio de Defensa, Instituto de Historia y Cultura Naval, Madrid, 2004.

 

Rodríguez Crespo, Joaquín. "Navío Santísima Trinidad 1769-1805. Reconstrucción gráfica y documental". Hobby, S. L., Madrid, 2007.

 

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