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HCMS San Pedro de Alcantara (1771)

Page history last edited by ManuBlasco 13 years, 5 months ago

San Pedro de Alcantara (1st), 62-64

 

Details
Nationality Spanish
Ordered ?  
Started ?  
Named ?  
Launched 1771-dec-31  
Shipyard La Habana  
Plans Francisco Gautier w2,??
Constructor Ignacio Mullan w2
Decks 2  
Rate 4th Rates  
Class    
System British b31
Crew 422-450  
In Service 1772 b18
Out Service 1786-feb-02 b18,w2
Fate Wrecked  

 

 

Dimensions
Units Lenght Keel Beam Depth Draught Weight Source
Burgos ft. 196' (54.61) 175'8" (48.95) 51' (14.21) 25' (6.97) 25'6" (7.11) 1,645 ? 
Codos 82' (47.13) 77' (44.25) 23'8" (13.60) 11'10" (6.80) 12'6" (7.18) 1,483 b75
Codos 82'12" 77' 23' 11'20" 12'6" 1,483 Tn. s2

 

 

Armament
Guns Date # lbs # lbs # lbs # lbs Broadside Source
62 1772 26 18 28 12 8 8 - - ? b18
62 1784 26 18 28 12 8 8 2p 3 ? s2

 

 

Commanders

1773-mmm-00 1773-mmm-00 Captain D. Pedro Castejon.  
1773-jun-00 1774-mmm-00 Captain D. Pedro Colarte.  
1776-may-00 1776-mmm-00 Commodore D. Juan Soto y Aguilar Montoya.  
1784-apr-12 1784-mmm-00 Commodore D. Manuel Fernandez Bedoya.  
1784-mmm-00 1786-feb-02 Commodore D. Manuel de Eguia. b75

 

Service Record

1772-mmm-00 Left La Habana to Cadiz or El Ferrol.  
1772-aug-00 At El Ferrol, commissioned for a sailing test with San Vicente Ferrer (80) b2
1773-mmm-00 Left El Ferrol to Cartagena? for naval testing with San Pablo & San Gabriel  
1773-mmm-00 Left Cartagena to El Ferrol for naval testing with San Genaro  
1773-jun-00 Left El Ferrol to Cadiz.  
1773-nov-00 Left Cadiz to the Lima, Peru.  
1774-mar-00 Reached 61 degrees south, near Antartida, tried to cross Cape Horn.  
1774-may-00 Arrived to Rio de la Plata, without masts after failed to cross Cape Horn.  
1774-nov-00 Left Rio de la Plata to Lima.  
1775-feb-15 Arrived to Lima, Peru.  
1776-may-00 Left Lima back to Cadiz.  
1776-mmm-00 Arrived to Cadiz.  
1777-mmm-00 Left Cadiz back to Peru.  
1779-jun-00 Based at El Callao squadron, during the American Indepence War.1  
1780-may-19 Left La Habana to Veracruz with San Juan Nepomuceno & 6 merchantmen. b53
1783-mmm-00 Left El Callao to Lima with Peruano & Santa Paula.  
1784-mmm-00 At El Callao, fitted using America supplies. w2
1784-apr-12 Left El Callao to Cadiz with Peruano & Santa Paula, carring 8,000,000 pesos fuertes. ?
1784-sep-00 Left El Callao to Cadiz, stopping at Talcahuano & Valparaiso with 7,601,960 pesos, copper & other goods. b75
1784-nov-00 Arrived at Talcahuano after 33 days of sailing with epidemy & water hole. b75
1784-mmm-00 Left Talcahuano back to El Callao to repair. b75
1784-mmm-00 Turn back to El Callao due to problems of cargo distribution and ship's bad state.  
1784-dec-28 Left El Callao to Concepcion. s2
1785-mmm-00 Solved, left again to Cadiz, stopping at Talcahuano & Valparaiso. b75
1785-mar-00 At the waters off Chile again had another water hole. b75
1785-may-08 At the Atlantic, after crossed Cape Horn, had a storm, with water inside at 3 ft. per hour. b75
1785-jun-12 Entered at Rio de Janeiro for repairs. b75
1785-nov-04 Left Rio de Janeiro after finished repairs to Cadiz. b75
1785-dec-05 At Ascension island. b75
1786-jan-23 At Santa Maria island, Azores. b75
1786-feb-02 Sunk at Peniche, north of Lisbon, after hitting the coast rocks at night.2 b75
1786-may-00 Could be recovered 62 out of the 64 guns, 6,780,255 pesos and 3,349 copper bars.  
1786-may-00 Could be recovered 7,286,472 golden & silver pesos and 6,625 copper bars. b75

 

Notes

Was not a good fighting ship under bad weather, since it could not open the lower gun deck.

Was the last one built under Jorge Juan's or british system.

1Based squadron at El Callao (1779-1783): San Pedro de Alcantara, Peruano, America & Sta Paula. Private ships San Miguel, Belen and Aquiles, frigates; Galicia, Princesa de Aragon, Santa Barbara, Begonna and Aguila, and 4 more small vessels (s1)

2 Out of the 450 crew & passangers, 152 died (14 officers, 5 women, 17 indians & 128 sailors). Captain Manuel de Eguia survived.

 

Sources (research by Santiago Gomez)

RGM, agosto de 1980, José Luis Alcofar Nassaes, "Los tres puentes españoles".

RHN, año 2002, nº 76, José Ignacio González-Aller Hierro, "Origen e identificación de algunos barcos del Museo Naval",

RHN, año 1993, nº 42, Ana María García-Junco del Pino, "El regreso de la escuadra de los bajeles del mar del Sur". (s1)

RHN, año 1999, nº 67, Fernando de la Guardia Salvetti, "El hundimiento del San Pedro de Alcántara".

Cesáreo Fernández Duro, "Disquisiciones náuticas", Tomo V.

José Manuel Vázquez Lijó, "La matrícula de mar en la España del siglo XVIII".

José Ignacio González-Aller Hierro, "La campaña de Trafalgar".

Glaudio Gay, "Historia física y política de Chile", Tomo IV.

Cesáreo Fernández Duro, "Naufragios de la Armada Española". (b75)

AGMAB, Estados de Fuerza y Vida, leg. 2235/41 (s2)

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