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HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.
With a. navy more flourishing and powerful than she had ever before been mistressof, Spain entered into the dispute as a party, but derived no other gratificationthan the empty parade of sending an armament as auxiliary to the French, toencounter the perils of the British channel for a few weeks. The ostensiblesuceriority of force was found insufficient to the task of undertaking; anventerprise that might have reflected glory and honour on the exertions and in-trepidity of the confederates, and a few months only elapsed ere complete sa-tisfaction was obtained for the apparent insult, by the total discomfiture of aformidable squadron, and the capture of three or four of the ships, whose ex-cellence had been most proudly boasted of, when forming a part of the Spanishnavy. Their dimensions and rate may be seen at one view, and may serve to
El Guerrero
70
El San Pedro Apostelo
70
11 Masnanimo
70
El San Raphael
70
lit Magnificente
70
E! Sati Remond
70
El Mercuro
70
El Sebastiano
70
El Monarco (taken)
70
El Serioso
70
El Minotoro
70
La Sirena
7o
El Oriente
70
El Velasco
70
El Poderoso
70
El Vigilante
70
La Princessa (taken)
70
El Vincedor
70
El San Damasco
70
I.’America
Cl
El Sau Domingo (blown up off cape i
(70
L’Asia
Cl
St. Vincent) j
i'
El Astuto
Cl
El San Eugenio
70
El Casado
C4
El San Evedro
70
El Dration
Cl
El San Gabriel
70
El Guipuscoana (belonging to the Ca- ) _
El San Genaro
70
racca company)
1 v
l.a Santa Isabella
70
El San Domingo
Cl
El San Jago
.70
El San Peruviano
64
El San Joachim
70
El San Philippe
6-1
El San Juan Baptiste
70
El Triomphante
/
1
El San Juan Nepomuceno
70
El Victorioso
64
El San Julian (destroyed 1779)
70
Fourth rates.
El San Julien
70
El Castilla
60
El San Justo
70
El San Isidore
GO
Ea Santa Matilda
70
El San Lorenzo
GO
El San Miguel (taken at Gibraltar)
70
El Septentrione
GO
El San Pablo
70
El Sail Leandro
50
El SanPasquali
JO
El Minho
50
El San Pedro AlcanUiia
70
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