The ''San Agustín'' was a 74-gun ship of the line built at the royal shipyard in Guarnizo (Santander) and launched in 1768. She was captured by

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in 1776, but returned the following year.Robert J. King, "Arthur Phillip Defensor de Colónia, Governador de Nova Gales do Sul", ''Anais de História de Além-Mar'' ortugal 2005 (6), pp.339-349; English and Spanish translations at
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/ref> In January 1780, during the American War of Independence, she was part of a squadron of 11 of the line under command of Admiral Don Juan de Lángara left on patrol off Cape St. Vincent to intercept an expected

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convoy for

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. But, when it appeared, the British fleet, under Sir George Rodney, greatly outnumbered the Spanish squadron, with 18 ships of the line. The result was the Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780), off the stormy, dark cliffs of Cape Santa María through the afternoon and evening of 16 January 1780. Six Spanish ships of the line were captured and one destroyed. The ''San Agustín'' and ''San Genaro'' were the only Spanish ships of the line to escape unscathed. During the Napoleonic wars, she fought at the Battle of Algeciras in 1801 and the

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in 1805.

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