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HCMS Princesa (1750)

Page history last edited by ManuBlasco 15 years ago

Princesa (2nd), 70

Santa Barbara


Details

Nationality Spanish
Ordered    
Started    
Named    
Launched 1750 b18,w2
Shipyard La Habana  
Plans    
Constructor    
Decks 2  
Rate 3rd Rates  
Class    
System Spanish  
Crew    
In Service 1750 b18,w2
Out Service 1780-jan-16 b18,w2
Fate Captured
Next Princessa 1784

 

Dimensions

Units Lenght Keel Beam Depth Draught Burthen Displacement Source
British ft. (meters) 170' 2 1/2" (51.9) ? 51'2" (15.6) 22'1" (6.7)   1,966 (1,997.5)   w16

 

Armament

Guns Date # lbs # lbs # lbs # lbs Fires Source
70 1750                   b18
74 1750                   w2

 

 

Commanders

1752-mar-01   Captain D. Simon de Herrera.  
1759-mm-00   Captain D. Francisco Maria Espinola.  
1759-mm-00   Admiral Count of Vegaflorida's flagship.  
1763-mm-00   Captain D. Juan Antonio Cordero.  
1765-mm-00   Captain D. Francisco Maria Espinola.  
1769-mm-00   Captain D. Jose Yanci.  
1776-mm-00   Captain D. Manuel Miguel de Leon.  
1779-mm-00   Captain D. Manuel Miguel de Leon.  

 

Service Record

1751-jan-31 Commissioned and ready to depart with Rayo, Infante & Galicia  
1752-mar-01 Left La Habana to Cadiz with Rayo, Infante & Galicia  
1752-apr-30 Arrived to Cadiz with Rayo, Infante & Galicia  
1754-mm-00 At Cadiz, commissioned to America & European waters.  
1755-apr-00 Careened & repaired at La Carraca, Cadiz.  
1756-mm-00 At Cadiz, commissioned to America & European waters.  
1757-mm-00 At Cadiz, commissioned to America & European waters.  
1758-mm-00 At Cadiz, commissioned to America & European waters.  
1759-mm-00 Joinned Victoria's fleet to carry Carlos III from Naples to Barcelona.  
1760-mm-00 At Cadiz.  
1761-mm-00 At Cadiz.  
1762-mm-00 At Cadiz.  
1763-apr-27 Left Cadiz to La Habana with Africa, Aquiles, Hector & 2 minor ships.(1)  
1764-mm-00 Left Cartagena with Terrible, to replace spanish troops at Oran to Alicante and then returned to Cartagena.  
1765-mm-00 At La Carraca, Cadiz for minor repairs.  
1765-mm-00 Joinned Victoria's fleet to bring from Genoa Princess Maria Luisa, passing thru Naples & Palermo.  
1766-jun-07 Arrived to Cartagena.  
1767-may-03 Left Cadiz scorting 2 swedish merchantmen transporting 154 jesuitas to Civitavecchia, Rome.  
1767-may-08 Arrived to Malaga and is joined by 6 more merchantment.  
1767-may-09 Left Malaga to Civitavecchia.  
1767-may-30 Arrived to Civitavecchia, but are not allowed to disembark the jesuitas and departed to Corsica.  
1767-jun-00 Arrived to Corsica and disembarks the jesuitas''.  
1767-jun-00 Arrived to Cartagena.  
1767-jul-00 Arrived to Cadiz.  
1768-may-00 Left Cadiz to Ceuta.  
1768-jun-02 Arrived to Ceuta, embarked Morrocco's Consul to Algeciras, for a prisioners exchange.  
1769-sep-00 At Algeciras, disarmed, in ordinary.  
1776-jul-26 Entered at Cartagena from Oran, with troops. s1
1776-sep-00 Transported troops from Cartagena to Cadiz.  
1779-jun-00 At Cadiz under Admiral Cordoba's fleet.  
1779-mm-00 Joinned 1st Campaign English Channel with french Orvilliers fleet.  
1779-aug-17 Helped HMXMF Juno & HMXMF Chantil to capture Ardent.  
1779-sep-00 Arrived to Brest.  
1779-nov-09 Left with Admiral Cordoba's fleet from Brest to Cadiz, for the Campaign of Gibraltar.  
1779-nov-19 Arrived with Admiral Cordoba's fleet to Cadiz and patrols.  
1779-dec-00 With other 3 SoL patroled the Strait of Gibraltar.  
1780-jan-00 Joinned Admiral Langara's fleet from Cartagena.  
1780-jan-16 Captured by the british in the Battle of Cape Saint Maria. b18,w2

 

Actions & Battles

1780-jan-16 Battle of Cape Saint Maria

 

Notes

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

 

Sources

Archivo General de Simancas,SGU,LEG,6835,6 (s1)

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