San Nicolás — Spanish 84-gun Third Rate

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. Two ships fouled in a boarding. Not a named portrait of the ship.

Overview

San Nicolás (84) is already on the Four Spanish Prizes of Cape St Vincent 1797. She fouled San José — Spanish 112-gun First Rate on 14 February 1797 and was boarded through her stern gallery.¹

Service

This note covers that capture only. Later British names stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview ran HMS Captain — 74-gun Third Rate alongside. Berry Edward — British Captain led the boarding party through the stern gallery and her captain struck. Nelson then crossed her deck onto San José — Nelson’s Patent Bridge for Boarding First Rates.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

• San José — Spanish 112-gun First Rate
• Salvador del Mundo — Spanish 112-gun First Rate
• San Ysidro — Spanish 74-gun Third Rate
• Four Spanish Prizes of Cape St Vincent 1797
• HMS Captain — 74-gun Third Rate
• Berry Edward — British Captain
• Córdova José de — Spanish Admiral

Cross-Domain

• Cadiz — Spanish Naval Port
• Age of Sail — Era Overview

Footnotes

1. 84 guns; fouled with San José; stern-gallery boarding: Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview. ↩

2. Berry; captain struck; Nelson across: same battle note. Do not add a later British name until a page is licensed. ↩