Santísima Trinidad — Spanish First Rate

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A Spanish first-rate of the line. Not a named portrait of the ship.

Overview

Santísima Trinidad is already on two battle notes. At the Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview she is the Spanish first-rate of 130 guns, “the only four-decker in the world,” in Don José de Córdova’s fleet. At the Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Overview she is listed among the fifteen Spanish ships of the Combined Fleet as “the largest warship in the world.”¹

Specifications

Feature	Detail
Guns	130 (Cape St Vincent note)
Type	Spanish four-decker first-rate
Battles in this vault	Cape St Vincent 1797; Trafalgar 1805

A British First Rate Ship of the Line — Class Overview is a 100-gun three-decker — HMS Victory — Overview (104) and HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview (100). This note does not collapse the Spanish four-decker into that British rate table. The 130-gun figure is the Cape St Vincent note’s figure. It is not restated as a Trafalgar armament.²

Service

This note covers the two already-sourced battle appearances. Construction yard, commanders, and later fate are not on a licensed named-ship page — they stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

On 14 February 1797 Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview wore HMS Captain — 74-gun Third Rate across the Spanish van, including Santísima Trinidad. The four prizes taken that day were San José, Salvador del Mundo, San Nicolás, and San Ysidro — not this ship. On 21 October 1805 she was in Villeneuve’s Combined Fleet off Cape Trafalgar — Geography. Individual Trafalgar damage and any storm fate are not restated here.³

Sources

• @knight2005pursuit — pp. 211–230 (Cape St Vincent); pp. 511–572 (Trafalgar campaign)
• @adkin2005trafalgar — 1805 companion already used at pp. 286–323
• @white2005nelson — Trafalgar overview
• Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview
• Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Overview

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Ships_Maritime
• Individual_Ships_Index

Same Battles

• Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview
• Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Overview
• Trafalgar Campaign 1805

Key People

• Jervis John Earl St Vincent — Biography
• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview
• Villeneuve Pierre-Charles — French Admiral
• Gravina Federico — Spanish Admiral

Ships

• HMS Captain — 74-gun Third Rate — wore across the van in 1797
• HMS Victory — Overview — British first-rate contrast
• First Rate Ship of the Line — Class Overview — British 100-gun class
• Bucentaure — Overview — Combined Fleet flag, 1805

Cross-Domain

• Cadiz — Spanish Naval Port
• Cape Trafalgar — Geography
• Age of Sail — Era Overview

Footnotes

1. Both phrases are already on the sourced battle notes. This ship note does not add a new measurement. ↩

2. 130 guns / four-decker: Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview. “Largest warship in the world”: Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Overview. ↩

3. Prize list from the Cape St Vincent overview. Do not add a captain, launch year, or wreck until a page is licensed. ↩