Four Spanish Prizes of Cape St Vincent 1797
Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. Prize ships after a battle. Not a portrait.
Overview
The Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview already lists the four Spanish ships of the line taken on 14 February 1797: San José (112), Salvador del Mundo (112), San Nicolás (84), and San Ysidro (74). About 3,000 prisoners were taken with them. Santísima Trinidad was in the van and was not one of the four.1
The Day
This note covers those prizes that day only. Prize-court money and later British names stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE. Individual ship notes now cover the capture day only.
Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography in HMS Excellent — 74-gun Third Rate forced the strikings of Salvador del Mundo and San Ysidro in succession. San Nicolás and San José were taken in the boarding later named Nelson’s Patent Bridge for Boarding First Rates.2
The remaining Spanish fleet escaped to Cadiz — Spanish Naval Port.
Sources
- @knight2005pursuit — pp. 211–230
- @white2005nelson
- @adkin2005trafalgar
- Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview
Related
Navigation
- MOC_Economics_Commerce
- Prize_Plunder_Index — first primary note in an empty prize-plunder room
Same Battle
- Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview
- HMS Captain — 74-gun Third Rate
- HMS Excellent — 74-gun Third Rate
- Jervis John Earl St Vincent — Biography
- Berry Edward — British Captain
- Santísima Trinidad — Spanish First Rate
- Nelson’s Patent Bridge for Boarding First Rates
- San José — Spanish 112-gun First Rate
- San Nicolás — Spanish 84-gun Third Rate
- Salvador del Mundo — Spanish 112-gun First Rate
- San Ysidro — Spanish 74-gun Third Rate
Cross-Domain
Footnotes
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Four ships, rates, ~3,000 prisoners, Santísima Trinidad not among them: Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 — Overview and the Santísima note. ↩
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Excellent’s two strikings; Patent Bridge boarding of San Nicolás and San José: same battle note. Do not add prize-court shares or later British commissions until a page is licensed. ↩