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HCMS San Isidoro (1776)

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San Isidoro (4th), 64/68

San Isidro (4th)


 

Details 

Former San Guiseppe
Nationality Bought
Ordered    
Started    
Named    
Launched 1766/8
Launched 1775 ?
Shipyard Naples  
Plans    
Constructor    
Decks  
Rate 4th Rates   
Class San Guiseppe  
Crew    
In Service 1776-aug/sep s2 
Out Service 1794-oct-26  s1 
Fate Wrecked  s1

 

 

Dimensions
Units Length Keel Beam Depth Draught Weight Source
Burgos ft. 182' 165'
50'4" 25'1" 25'6"  1,814 Tn. s3
Meters 52.30 47.41 14.47 7.21 7.33 2,754 m3 (s3)

 

 

Armament
Guns Date # lbs # lbs # lbs # lbs Broadside Source
64 1776 26 24 28 12 10 8 - - 520 (255) s3 
68 1794 26  24  28  12  14 8 - - 536 (262)
s1,s3

 

 

Commanders 

1778-jun-08 1779-jun-00 Captain D. Felipe Gonzalez Haedo  
1779-jun-00   Captain D. Diego Quiroga  
1782-sep-00   Commodore D. Justo Riquelme y Salafranca  
1791-jul-20 1792-oct-06  Commodore D. Antonio Chacon  
1793-may-06 1793-aug-14  Captain D. Jose de la Valeta y Borras  
1794-mar-31 1794-mm-dd Captain D. Manuel Atienza ? 
1794-mm-dd 1794-oct-26 Captain D. Jose de la Valeta y Borras s1

 

Service Record 

1776-mm-dd Neapolitan twin ships San Isidoro & San Leandro exchanged by 2/3 spanish frigates: Sta TeresaSta DoroteaSta Clara s1
1776-aug/sep Arrived with San Leandro to Cartagena and was set in ordinary. s2
1779-jun-00 1st Campaign of the English Channel, under Adm. Cordoba's fleet.  
1779-dec-00 At Cadiz after the Campaign.  
1780-mar-02 Entered at Algeciras bay, under Vice Adm. Barcelo's squadron1 for the 1st Siege of Gibraltar.  
1782-sep-00 At Algeciras bay with more spanish & french ships for the 2nd Siege of Gibraltar.  
1782-sep-09 Left Algeciras to bomb Gibraltar under Buenaventura Moreno's squadron, with 1 dead & 3 wounded.  
1782-sep-10 Colissioned with other ships getting broke his "baupres" entering at Algeciras bay for repairs.  
1782-oct-00 Supported floating batteries attack to Gibraltar from Algeciras.  
1782-oct-21 Battle of Cape Spartel, having 2 wounded.  
1783-mm-00 Until the end of the war with Great Britain was under Cordoba's fleet.  
1791-jul-20 Left Cadiz to Veracruz with quicksilver and passangers. s3
1791-sep-04 Entered at Veracruz  
1791-nov-27 Left Veracruz to La Habana and later to Cadiz with 2,562,180 pesos and goods. s3 
1791-1792 Left La Habana to Cadiz with 1,298,699 pesos & goods. ?
1792-mar-24 Entered at Veracruz from La Habana with masts, guns & tobacco. s3
1792-jul-04 Left Veracruz with 2,817,889 pesos for the King & 230,527 for privateers, with other goods (copper plates, vanilla, ...)  
1792-oct-06 Entered at Cadiz from Veracruz with 3,048,374 pesos, fruits, copper plates & other goods. s3 
1793-mm-00 At Cadiz, set in commission for the war against revolutionary french, under Adm. Borja's squadron at the Mediterranean.  
1793-may-06 Left Cartagena under Adm. Borja's squadron for the Campaign of Sardinia. s3 
1793-jul-00 Returned to Cartagena under Adm. Borja's squadron. s3 
1793-aug-08 Left Cartagena to patrolled with other ships at the Viscay Bay? s3 
1793-aug-14 Entered at Cartagena. s3
1794-mar-31 Left Cadiz under Adm. Langara's squadron. s3
1794-mm-00 At Cartagena under Adm. Langara's squadron.  
1794-may-16 Entered at Cadiz under Adm. Langara's squadron. s3
1794-may-26 Run ashore at the entrance of Cadiz bay, but recovered by the new tide, lossing the rudder.  
1794-mm-00 Under Adm. Gravina's fleet at Cadiz.  
1794-sep-18 Left Cadiz to Barcelona with 460 land troops and other supplies. s3
1794-oct-00 Commissioned to transports troops at Rosas.  
1794-oct-24 Disembarked troops at Palamos bay.  
1794-oct-26 Left anchors and run ashore at Palamos' bay, the crew and most of supplies a board were saved before wrecked. s1

 

Actions & Battles

1782-oct-21 Battle of Cape Spartel

 

Notes

Former Neapolitan ship San Guiseppe (San Jose).

1 Vice Adm. Barcelo's squadron:  San Lorenzo (74), San Justo (74), San Miguel (74), Rosario (34), Santa Gertrudis (34) and xebecs San Luis, Murciano & San Antonio

 

Sources (research by Santiago Gomez)

Cesáreo Fernandez Duro, "Naufragios de la Armada Española", published in 1867. (s1)

Gaceta de Madrid, Campo de S. Roque, 2 de mayo de 1780, nº 24, pag. 186-187, published, 14 de mayo de 1780.

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

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

SÁNCHEZ-MACHUCA, José Octavio. Diario de una campaña. Gibraltar, 1779-1783. Balkan Editores, Madrid, 2004.

Colec. docs. de Vargas Ponce, Museo Naval, Tomo XXXVII, Doc. 286, Fol. 338, letter from González de Castejón to Alfonso de Alburqueque, San Ildefonso, 24 de septiembre de 1776 (s2

AGMAB, Estados de Fuerza y Vida, leg. 2235/41 (s3)

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