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HCMS Brillante (1740)

Page history last edited by ManuBlasco 15 years ago

Brillante (1st), 60/66

Details

Former N S del Rosario Merchant
Nationality Bought
Ordered    
Started    
Named    
Launched ?  
Shipyard ?  
Plans    
Constructor    
Decks 2  
Rate 3rd Rates  
Crew 600  
In Service 1740-nov-22  
Out Service 1748  
Fate Returned  

 

Dimensions

Units Lenght Keel Beam Depth Draught Weight Displacement Source
  ?   ?     ?    

 

Armament

Guns Date # lbs # lbs # lbs Fires Source
66 1740 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  
60 1740 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  
64 1748               b098

 

Commanders

1741-mm-00   Captain D. Blas Clemente de Barreda y Campuzano.  
1744-feb-22 1744-aug-04 Captain D. Blas Clemente de Barreda y Campuzano.  
1744-aug-05 1744-nov-24 Captain D. Carlos Reggio y Gravina.  
1744-nov-25   Captain D. Julian de Arriaga.  
1748-mm-00   Captain D. Joaquin de Villena.  

 

Service Record

1740-nov-22 At Cadiz, bought by royal order by the spanish navy.  
1740-nov-00 At La Carraca is rebuilt for military usage and renamed Brillante'.  
1741-mm-00 Patrolled Mediterranean and french coast.  
1744-feb-22 Battle of Cape Sicie  
1744-aug-05 At Cadiz for repairs.  
1744-oct-25 Left La Habana with Adm. Torres' squadron to La Corunna with 9,000,000 pesos.? 1  
1745-jan-10 Admiral Torres' squadron arrived to La Corunna?.1  
1746-mm-00 At Cartagena.  
1748-mm-00 At Cadiz.  
1748-mar-14 Left Cadiz to Veracruz with more warships, scorting a convoy of 20-30 merchantmen.2 b098
1748-mar-18 Action vs. Cotes b098
1748-mm-00 Returned back to his original owner.  

 

Actions & Battles

1744-feb-22 Battle of Cape Sicie
1748-mar-18 Action vs. Cotes

 

Notes

Former private merchantman bought by the spanish navy.

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

2 Soberbio (74), Leon (74), Oriente (70), Colorado (70), Brillante (64), Pastora (64), Rosario (60), Xavier (54) and Galga (54) (b098)

 

Sources (research by Santiago Gomez) 

R.H.N., año 2002, nº 79, Juan Antonio Gómez Vizcaíno, "Marinos en el gobierno político y militar de la plaza de Cartagena 1769-1796".

María Teresa Pérez-Crespo Muñoz, "El arsenal de Cartagena en el siglo XVIII".

b098 -  "The Navy in the 1739-1748 War", by H.W. Richmond (google books)

 

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