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Santísimo Cristo de la Victoria

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Nominal Guns10ref:2038
NationalitySpain
OperatorPrivate Owners
Launched1797ref:2038
Home PortVigo - Spain ref:2038
How acquiredBuilt by Contractref:2038
ShipyardUnknownref:2038
CategoryPrivateerref:2038
Ship TypeBrig
Sunk to avoid capturec.2.1797ref:2038

Armament


1797Broadside Weight Unknownref:2038
Location Unknown12 Spanish Pedreros
Gun Deck10 Iron Guns

Owners


DatesOwnerSource
1797 - 1797/02
Buenaventura Marcó del PontSpanish
Ship Owner
Privateer
Service 1783-1798
Owner
ref:2038

Crew Complement


Date# of MenNotesSource
179764 ref:2038

1 Ship Commander


DatesRankNameSource
1797 - c.2.1797Capitan de Corsario
Juan Antonio MartínezSpanish
Privateer
Service 1797
ref:2038

Service History


DateEventSource
1797

Captures four merchantmen, two of them with false American plates.

ref:2038
c.2.1797

Pursued by an English frigate, he enters Portuguese waters seeking asylum. He was interned and had to be sunk to avoid capture. Portugal

ref:2038


Sources


IDNameAuthorType
ref:2038Archivo Historico Nacional Archive
 
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