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HCMS San Damaso (1776)

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San Damaso (2nd), 70/74


Details

Nationality Spanish
Ordered    
Started    
Named    
Launched 1776  
Shipyard Cartagena  
Plans    
Constructor    
Decks 2  
Rate 3rd Rates  
Class    
System British  
Crew    
In Service 1776  
Out Service 1797-feb-17  
Fate Captured
Next San Damaso Hulked

 

Dimensions

Units Length Keel Beam Depth Draught Weight Displacement Source
Burgos ft. (meters) l (m.) k (m.) b (m.) d (m.) d (m.) w (Tn.) D (Tn.)  

 

Armament

Guns Date # lbs # lbs # lbs # lbs Fires Source
70 1776 ? lbs ? lbs ? lbs ? lbs lbs (Kg.)  
74 1797 ? lbs ? lbs ? lbs ? lbs lbs (Kg.)  

 

 

 

 

Commanders

1776-jun-00 1780-mm-00 Captain D. Francisco de Borja  
1780-jul-31   Captain D. Jose de Varela  
1793-apr-26   Captain D. Nicolas Estrada y Posada  
1796-aug-04 1797-feb-16 Captain D. Jose Jordan.  

 

Officers

1781-mm-00 1782-mm-00 Rear Adm. Antonio de Osorno  
1789-feb-00   Vice Adm. D. Joaquin Cañaveral  
1795-mm-dd 1795-mm-dd Commodore D Domingo Perler.  

 

Service Record

1776-mm-00 Patrolled Mediterranean waters to fight algerian corso for 65 days.  
1776-aug-00 Entered at Cadiz.  
1776-nov-13 Left Cadiz under Adm. Tilly's fleet for the Campaign of Sacramento.1  
1777-mar-00 The fleet arrived & conquers Santa Catalina island.  
1777-mar-30 Adm. Tilly's fleet left Santa Catalina to Rio Grande de San Pedro.  
1777-apr-18 Arrived to Maldonado's harbour with damages due to a storm.  
1777-mm-00 At Martin Garcia island.  
1778-jul-17 Arrived to Cadiz from Santa Catalina with Santo Domingo (70), Monarca (74) & America (64) with troops & supplies.  
1779-mm-00 1st Campaign of the English Channel.  
1779-mm-00 At Cadiz, under Admiral Langara's fleet, patrols the Strait of Gibraltar.  
1780-jan-00 Left Brest to Cadiz.  
1780-jul-31 Left Cadiz under Adm. Cordoba's fleet to patrol nearby Cape St. Vincent waters.  
1780-aug-09 Captured a british convoy of 55 vessels under Adm. Cordoba's fleet nearby Cape St. Vincent.  
1781-feb-06 Left Cadiz under Adm. Cordoba's fleet to patrol nearby Cape St. Vincent waters.  
1781-mar-28 Entered back to Cadiz under Adm. Cordoba's fleet.  
1781-may-01 Left Cadiz under Adm. Cordoba's fleet to patrol nearby Cape St. Vincent waters.  
1781-jun-08 Entered back to Cadiz under Adm. Cordoba's fleet.  
1781-jul-22 Left Cadiz under french-spanish fleet of Adm. Cordoba for the 2nd Campaign of the English Channel.  
1781-sep-03 Entered back to Cadiz from the English Channel.  
1782-mar-00 Left Cadiz with other 12 spanish SoL & Contre Adm. Guichen to patrol Madeira & Puerto Santo.  
1782-mm-00 Joinned Adm. Cordoba's fleet at high seas for the 3rd Campaign of the Enlgish Channel.  
1782-sep-12 At Algeciras bay for the Siege of Gribaltar.  
1782-oct-10 Suffered a storm at Algeciras bay, lossing some masts.  
1782-nov-05 Repaired continued supporting the siege of Gibraltar.  
1789-feb-00 Joinned Adm. Felix de Tejada's testing squadron.  
1789-sep-24 Finished testing sailing under Tejadas's squadron.  
1793-mm-00 At Cadiz set in commission for the war against french revolutionary.  
1793-apr-00 Joinned Adm. Borja's squadron for the Campaign of Sardinia and then patrolled Viscay Bay.  
1794-dec-00 At Rosas bay under Adm. Langara's squadron, lossing some masts due to storms.  
1795-mm-00 Transported troops from Barcelona to Malaga and after to Cadiz.  
1795-jun-00 At Cadiz, joinned Adm. Mazarredo's fleet.  
1796-aug-04 Left Cadiz under Rear Adm. Apocada's squadron to Trinidad.  
1796-sep-14 Arrived to Trinidad under Apocada's squadron.2  
1796-mm-00 Canceled the departure to Cartagena de Indias and stayed at Trinidad.  
1797-feb-16 Blocked at Shagaramus (Chaguaramas) bay, Trinidad by Rear Adm. Harvey's fleet.3  
1797-feb-17 Set on fire by the spanish at Shagaramus (Chaguaramas) bay, Trinidad to avoid capture by the british.  
1797-feb-17 The fire was extingued and the ship captured.  
1797-mm-00 Used as prison hulk at Portsmouth.  

 

Notes

Built using San Genaro's plans.

1 Sacramento's Campaign fleet: Poderoso (74), San Jose (74), Monarca (74), San Damaso (74), Septentrion (64), America (64), 6 frigates, 10 small war vessels, a convoy of 100 transports carring 10,000 men & supplies under General don Pedro Ceballos.

2 Rear Adm. Apocadas's squadron: San Vicente (80), Gallardo (74), Arrogante (74), San Damaso (74), Santa Cecilia (34) & brigs San Carlos & Galgo.

3 Rear Admiral Harvey's fleet: With an armed fleet between 7-20 named ships & 30-40 transports with Lt. General Sir Ralph Abercromby's army of 6,750 soldiers. More information here

 

Sources (research by Santiago Gomez)

Cesareo Fdez. Duro, "Armada Española desde la union de los reinos de Castilla y Aragon" - Tomo VIII (b61)

Revista General de Marina. Historias de la Mar, diciembre 1962.

Revista General de Marina, Miscelánea, mayo de 1996.

FERNÁNDEZ GAYTÁN, José. “Historias de la Mar. La ocupación británica de la isla Trinidad de Barlovento”, Revista General de Marina, junio de 1997.

FERNÁNDEZ DURO, Cesáreo. Disquisiciones náuticas. Tomo V. Ministerio de Defensa, 1996.

FERNÁNDEZ DURO, Cesáreo. Armada española. Tomo VIII, Museo Naval, Madrid, 1973.

GÓMEZ VIZCAÍNO, Juan Antonio. “Marinos extremeños en la Cartagena del siglo XVIII”, Revista de Historia Naval, (1984), nº 87.

JUAN-GARCÍA AGUADO, José Mª de. José Romero F. Landa. Un ingeniero de marina en el siglo XVIII, Universidad de La Coruña, 1998.

NÚÑEZ IGLESIAS, Indalecio, BLANCO NÚÑEZ, José María. La diversión de Tolón, 2 tomos, Ministerio de Defensa, Madrid, 1998.

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