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Spanish ship Princesa (1750)

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102: 32: 377: 230:, one of three ordered in 1748 to the specification laid down by Ciprian Autran and designed and built at Havana by Pedro de Torres. She was laid down on 11 May 1748 and launched on 15 September 1750. She and her sisters 448: 433: 438: 414: 101: 360: 256: 31: 407: 237: 231: 400: 243: 281: 285: 242:
were commissioned together on 15 August 1751, and left Havana (together with the equally new 80-gun
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on 16 January 1780, where she was captured by a squadron under the command of Admiral
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Rif Winfield, John Tredrea, Enrique Garcia-Torralba Perez and Manuel Blasco Felip,
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The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850.
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On 12 April 1782 she was the flagship of the blue squadron at the
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This article about a ship of the line of the United Kingdom is a
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Famous Fighters of the Fleet, Edward Fraser, 1904, p.106
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Francisco Ponce de Leon, arriving at Cadiz on 30 April.
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Infante
Galicia
Rayo
Battle of Cape St Vincent
George Rodney
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third rate
Battle of the Saintes
Francis Samuel Drake
George Rodney
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Ships of the line of the Spanish Navy
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1750 ships

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