Santísima Trinidad

Santisima Trinidad (meaning Most Holy Trinity in Spanish) may refer to:

• The fortress of Santísima Trinidad in the Kingdom of Chile that existed on the north shore of the Bio Bio River in what is now the commune of Laja in the Biobío Province of Chile.
• Santísima Trinidad, a barrio (district) in Asunción, Paraguay. The football club Sportivo Trinidense is based there.
• La Santisima Trinidad de Paraná, a former Jesuit mission in Paraguay.
• Buenos Aires, Argentina. The original name for the city after it was moved to the present site in 1580 by Juan de Garay was Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad, Puerto de Buenos Aires.
• Santísima Trinidad was in the early 20th Century an alternative title of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Buenos Aires.

• A number of Ships have had the name Santisima Trinidad including:
  • A series of Spanish warships , including:
    • The Spanish ship-of-the-line Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad (1769), the biggest warship in the world in its time, which sank after the Battle of Trafalgar (1805).

• • Other nations have also named their warships Santísima Trinidad, including:
    • ARA Santísima Trinidad, a frigate that participated in the Argentine War of Independence. In 1815-16 Santísima Trinidad was commanded by Miguel Brown, and then by Admiral William Brown. (See mundoandino.com Hippolyte de Bouchard)
    • ARA Santísima Trinidad (1948), ex-HMS Caicos, a patrol frigate of the US Tacoma class, which served in the Armada Republica Argentina from 1948. In 1963 this ship became a survey vessel and was renamed Comodoro Augusto Lasserre. She was sold in 1970 or 1971.
    • ARA Santísima Trinidad (1974), a Type 42 destroyer, of the Armada Republica Argentina.

• • Some merchant ships have also been called Santísima Trinidad, including:
    • Santísima Trinidad, a 400 ton Spanish galleon, commanded by Captain Francisco de Peralta, which escaped with the Panama treasure when Sir Henry Morgan attacked Panama City in January 1671. Santísima Trinidad was captured by English buccaneers in April 1680, and was renamed Trinity and used as their flagship. (See Howse, Derek, and Norman J. W. Thrower, editors A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992 1992.)
    • Santísima Trinidad y Nuestra Señora del Buen Fin, a Spanish galleon destined for merchant shipping between the Philippines and México, which was captured by the British in 1762.