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HCMS San Jose (1699)

Page history last edited by ManuBlasco 15 years, 1 month ago

San Jose (1st), 44/64

San Joseph

Details

Nationality Spanish
Ordered 1696  
Started 1697 b10
Named    
Launched 1698  
Shipyard Orio Mapil
Plans Francisco Garrote  
Constructor Pedro Arostegui &
Pedro Fco. Arostegui		  
Supplier Miguel Echebeste  
Decks 2-3 s1 
Rate 4th Rates  
System Old Spanish  
Class Arostegui  
Crew 550-570 w2
In Service 1699 s1 
Out Service 1708-jun-08 s1 
Fate Blew up s1 

 

Dimensions

Units Lenght Keel Beam Depth Draught Weight Displacement Source
Codos (meters) 71' (38.91) ? 22' (12.06)     1,051   w2
Codos (meters) 71'4" (38.90) 60'4" (32.90) 21'20" (11.6) 10'4" (5.5) 10'6" (5.8)  1,037 4/5   s1 

 

Armament

Guns Date # lbs # lbs # lbs Fires Source
44 1699 ? 18 ? 10 ? 6 ? (?) s1 
62 1706 26 18 26 10 10 6 788 (355) w2
60 1706 26 18 26 10 8 6 776 (350) w2
62 1708 46 18 8 10 8 4 940 (424) s1

 

 

Commanders

1705-mm-00 Admiral Jose Fernandez de Santillan, Count of Casa Alegre.  
1708-mm-00 Admiral Jose Fernandez de Santillan, Count of Casa Alegre.  

 

Service Record

1699-mm-00 Left Pasajes to Cadiz with San Joaquin w2
1701-mm-00 At Cadiz. w2
1702-aug-00 Defense of Cadiz vs. Admiral George Rooke attack. w2
1703-mm-00 At Cadiz.  
1704-mm-00 At Cadiz.  
1705-mar-00 Campaign of Gibraltar. w2
1706-mar-10 Left Cadiz to Cartagena de Indias scorting 10 merchantmen with San Joaquin & armed privateer Santa Cruz (44). w2
1706-apr-27 All arrived to Cartagena de Indias.(1)  
1707-mm-00 At Cartagena de Indias. w2
1708-feb-02 All left Cartagena de Indias to the feria of Portobello & meet there the fleet from El Callao.(2)  
1708-feb-10 All arrived to Portobello. w2
1708-may-28 Left Portobello to La Habana carring 22,000,000 golden pesos.(3)  
1708-jun-08 Battle of Baru w2
1708-jun-08 Blew up & sunk during the battle, carring between 7-11 million gold pesos. w2

 

Actions & Battles

1708-jun-08 Battle of Baru w2

 

Notes

Pedro de Arostegui died in 1697, finishing the ship his son, Pedro Francisco de Arostegui.

Was built as Capitana with 70 gun ports, but carring only 44. Was built as a galleon but rebuilt & modified at Cadiz as a ship of the line.

Once at Cadiz, after his maiden trip, was modified to carry 70 guns with 3 decks, castle & fore-castle, but never carried more than 64.

(1) Different sources assign 19, 27 & 29 of april as arriving date.

(2) The fleet from El Callao, left 1707-dec-19.

(3) The fleet was scorted by San Jose, San Joaquin, the french frigates Le Mieta, Saint Sprit, the privateer Santa Cruz & other armed minor ships.

Nowadays, a private treasures hunting company had located the ship and is waiting for the Colombian court for the rights.

 

Books

El Galeón Perdido: ¿Dónde está el San José?, Jorge Bendeck Olivella

 

Sources (research by Santiago Gomez)

"Política naval española en el Atlántico 1700-1715", Pablo Emilio Pérez-Mallaina Bueno.

"La construcción naval en Guipúzcoa. Siglos XVI-XVIII", Lourdes Odriozola Oyarbide.

Archivo General de Indias, Indiferente, 2740.

"Armada española, desde la unión de los reinos de Castilla y Aragón", Cesáreo Fernández Duro, Tomo VI

"Piraterías y agresiones de los ingleses en la América española", Justo Zaragoza.

"El Galeón Perdido: ¿Dónde está el San José?", Jorge Bendeck Olivella.

http://es.geocities.com/santillan1708/ficha_sjose.jpg (s1)

es.geocities.com/santillan1708/

www.cyber-corredera.de/panoles/Panol-52.htm

 

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