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HCMS Princesa (1750)

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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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