Name Princesa Acquired 16 January 1780 Launched 1750 | Name HMS Princessa Fate Broken up, 1809 | |
Captured 16 January 1780, by Royal Navy Class and type 70-gun third rate ship of the line | ||
Princesa was a 70-gun ship of the line of the Spanish Navy, launched in 1750.
She fought at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1780, where she was captured by the Royal Navy and commissioned as the third rate HMS Princessa. From 1784 she was employed as a sheer hulk, and she was broken up in 1809.
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