HMS San Antonio (1762)

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Career (Spain) Spanish Navy Ensign
Name: San Antonio
Captured: 13 August 1762, by Royal Navy
Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS San Antonio
Acquired: 13 August 1762
Fate: Sold, 1775
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 64-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1392 tons (1414.3 tonnes)
Length: 159 ft 6 in (48.6 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 44 ft 6 in (13.6 m)
Depth of hold: 20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 64 guns of various weights of shot

San Antonio was a 64-gun ship of the line of the Spanish Navy.

On 13 August 1762 she was captured by the Royal Navy, and commissioned as the third rate HMS San Antonio. She was sold out of the navy in 1775.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1. p178.

[edit] References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.