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Spanish ship Montañés (1794)

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class had been built, a new design was prepared by his successor, Julián Martín de Retamosa, to refine her buoyancy. She was launched in May 1794 and entered service the following year. With 2,400 copper plates on her hull, she was much faster than other ships of the same era, reaching 14 (rather
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she was assigned to the second division of Gravina's squadron. Both Alcedo and his deputy Antonio Castaños were killed (with the ship's command passing to Lieutenant Alejo Gutiérrez de Rubalcava), but overall the ship lost only 20 dead and 29 wounded. The
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than the average 10) knots downwind and 10 (rather than 8) knots upwind. It had been intended that future 74-gun ships should be built to her design, but instead Retamosa produced a fresh design for a longer 80-gun ship, to which the following
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In 1795 she fought a French force of 8 ships of the line (including one three-decker) and 2 frigates single-handed in the bay of
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managed to get within range of a coastal artillery battery, forcing the French to break off the chase.
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Winfield, Rif; Tredrea, John M; García-Torralba Pérez, Enrique & Blasco Felip, Manuel (2023).
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In June 1805 she was put under the command of Captain
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before being lost in a heavy storm on 10 March 1810.
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Index

third-rate
name ship of her class
Ferrol
Cantabria
José Romero y Fernández de Landa
Neptuno
Argomauta
San Feliu de Guíxols
Francisco de Alcedo
Alcalá Galdiano
Battle of Trafalgar
José Quevedo
capture of the Rosily Squadron
Canary Islands
Balearics
Havana
ISBN
978-1-5267-9078-1
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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1810
Caesar
HMS Wild Boar
Active
Montañés
Etingdon
John Bull
Rachael

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