HMS Excellent — 74-gun Third Rate

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A British 74-gun two-decker. Not a named portrait of the ship.

Overview

Excellent is already on the Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview as Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography’s British 74 under Jervis on 14 February 1797.¹

Specifications

Feature	Detail
Guns	74 (CSV note)
Type	British two-decker
This vault	Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797

Same rate as HMS Captain — 74-gun Third Rate.

Service

This note covers that day only. Launch, later commissions, and any Trafalgar command stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

About 1:30pm Nelson wore Captain out of the line. Captain held the Spanish van until Excellent came up in support. The battle note says Collingwood forced the strikings of Salvador del Mundo (112) and San Ysidro (74) in succession. Those two are among the Four Spanish Prizes of Cape St Vincent 1797.²

Sources

• @knight2005pursuit — pp. 211–230
• @white2005nelson
• @adkin2005trafalgar
• Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Ships_Maritime
• Individual_Ships_Index

Same Battle

• Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview
• Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography
• Jervis John Earl St Vincent — Biography
• HMS Captain — 74-gun Third Rate
• Berry Edward — British Captain
• Santísima Trinidad — Spanish First Rate
• Nelson’s Patent Bridge for Boarding First Rates
• Four Spanish Prizes of Cape St Vincent 1797
• Salvador del Mundo — Spanish 112-gun First Rate
• San Ysidro — Spanish 74-gun Third Rate

Cross-Domain

• Line of Battle — Naval Tactic
• Cadiz — Spanish Naval Port
• Age of Sail — Era Overview

Footnotes

1. Collingwood’s 74 under Jervis, 14 February 1797: Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview. ↩

2. 1:30 wear; Excellent in support; Salvador del Mundo 112 and San Ysidro 74: same battle note. Do not restate later Collingwood dialogue or a launch year until a page is licensed for those as this ship’s. ↩