HCMS Santisima Trinidad y Nuestra Sennora del Buen Fin, 70
Poderoso
Units | Length | Keel | Beam | Depth | Draught | Weight | Displacement | Source |
Burgos ft. | l (51.5) | k (m.) | b (15.2) | d (10.1) | d (m.) | w (Tn.) | 2,000 | w16 |
Guns | Date | # | lbs | # | lbs | # | lbs | # | lbs | Fires | Source |
50 | 1751 | ? | lbs | ? | lbs | ? | lbs | ? | lbs | lbs (Kg.) | |
9 | 1762 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 4 | | | | | 56 (27.41) | |
Commanders
Officers
Service Record
1751-mmm-dd | Left Filipinas to Acapulco. | |
1752-mmm-dd | Arrived to Filipinas from Acapulco. | |
1753-1755 | Made alternatively with N S del Rosario, trips to Acapulco every year. | |
1755-jul-23 | Left Cavite to Acapulco. | |
1756-feb-27 | Arrived to Acapulco after 7 months & 5 days, with 82 dead and 155 ill of the crew. | |
1756-aug-00 | Returned to Manila. | |
1756-1761 | Made alternatively with N S del Rosario, trips to Acapulco every year, besides in 1757. | |
1762-aug-01 | Left Manila to Acapulco, unawared of the british war with Spain. | |
1762-sep-24 | Lost main mast due to heavy storms. | |
1762-sep-28 | In front of Palapag, but didnt entered and headed Bagatao to repair. | |
1762-oct-29 | Discovered by Adm. Cornish's ships. | |
1762-oct-30 | Captured after fighting Panther, (60) & Argo, (28) | |
1763-mmm-00 | Entered at Plymouth with a treasure of 1,500,000 pesos ($2,000,000). | w16 |
Notes
Cost 229,852 pesos. Was built to carry 70 guns, but looks like never did due to cargo requirements.
The last one of the Carrera de Filipinas or Manila Galleons.
Sources
Wikipedia.org (w16)
AGI, Filipinas
Revista General de Marina.
Revista de Historia Naval.
Cesáreo Fernández Duro, Armada española, Tomo VII
Marley, David F. "The Last Manila Galleon" in Warship 1991. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1991.
Schurz, William Lytle. The Manila Galleon. Manila: Historical Conservation Society, 1985
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