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HCMS Castilla (1737)

Page history last edited by ManuBlasco 14 years, 11 months ago

Castilla (2nd), 60/64

Santo Cristo de Burgos


Details

Nationality Spanish
Ordered 1736-jun-00  
Started    
Named    
Launched 1737-jun-13 ?
Launched 1738 b18
Shipyard La Habana  
Plans    
Constructor Juan Acosta  
Decks 2  
Rate 4th Rates  
Class    
System Spanish  
Crew    
In Service 1738 b18
Out Service 1751 s1
Fate Sunk b18

 

Dimensions

Units Lenght Keel Beam Depth Draught Weight Displacement Source
Codos   62' (?)            

 

Armament

Guns Date # lbs # lbs # lbs # lbs Fires Source
60 1738                   b18,w2

 

Commanders

1739-mmm-dd Captain D. Isidro de Antayo.  

 

Service Record

1739-feb-12 Entered at La Habana from Veracruz with San Juan Bautista  
1739-mm-00 Left La Habana to Spain with Com. Pizarro's squadron.  
1739-aug-15 Entered at Santander with Pizarro's squadron.  
1739-mm-00 Entered at El Ferrol.  
1740-mar-00 Left El Ferrol chassing a british frigate.  
1740-jul-00 Left El Ferrol to Caribbean under Adm. Torres' squadron.  
1744-oct-25 Left La Habana with Adm. Torres' squadron to La Corunna with 9,000,000 pesos.1  
1745-jan-05 Entered at La Corunna with Glorioso  
1746-mm-00 At El Ferrol blocked by british.  
1748-mm-00 Commissioned to Pacific Sea with Europa  
1747-mm-00 Lost and sunk at the Mediterranean. b18
1747-mm-00 Sunk near Veracruz due to a storm. w2
1750-jun-10 Entered at Cadiz with Europa carring 2,424,129 pesos.  
1751-mm-00 Sunk nearby Veracruz due to a storm.  

 

Actions & Battles

 

Notes

1 Adm. Torres' squadron: Castilla, Glorioso, Europa, Brillante? the privateer frigate Flecha (6) & 4 merchantmen.

 

Sources (research by Santiago Gomez)

Archivo Histórico Nacional, Diversos-Colecciones, 42, N.17

RHN, año 1984, nº 4, Eulogio Zudaire Huarte, "Don Manuel de Huirior, teniente general de la Real Armada".

RHN, año 2006, nº 93, José Manuel Serrano Álvares, "Juan de Acosta y la construcción naval en La Habana (1717-1740)".

RHN, año 2006, nº 93, José Quintero González, "La Carraca y La Habana".

RGM, agosto 1987, Hugo O'Donnell y Duque de Estrada, "Jorge Juan y la defensa del Mar del Sur".

Hermenegildo Franco Castañon, "Sin perder el norte".

Antonio Béthencour Massieu, "Relaciones de España bajo Felipe V".

Didier Ozanam, "Representación del marqués de la Ensenada a Fernando VI (1751)", Cuadernos de investigación histórica, nº4, 1980. (s1)

 

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