List Of Ships Built At Ferrol Shipyards 1750–1881
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List Of Ships Built At Ferrol Shipyards 1750–1881
This is a list of ships built in the Reales Astilleros de Esteiro of the naval station of Ferrol, in north-western Spain, between 1750 and 1881. Between 1808 and 1825, coinciding with the emancipation of the Spanish Colonies in America, and the war against the French, the shipyards of Ferrol ceased activity. There was a complete standstill for 17 years and no ships were launched in the most important shipyards of Spain in northern Iberia. In 1842 the Spanish first steamship was launched in the shipyards of Ferrol. Wooden ships Warships * ''Fernando'' (1751) (a) * ''Asia'' (1752) * ''Eolo'' (1753) * ''Oriente'' (1754) * ''Aquilon'' (1754) * ''Neptuno'' (1754) * ''Brillante'' (1754) * ''Gallardo'' (1754) * ''Magnanimo'' (1754) * ''Glorioso'' (1755) * ''Guerrero'' (1755) * ''Vencedor'' (1755) * ''Soberano'' (1755) * ''Hector'' (1755) * ''Triunfante'' (1756) * ''Dichoso'' (1756) * ''Monarca'' (1756) * ''Diligente'' (1756) * ''Campéon'' (1758) * ''San Isidro'' (1768) * ''S ...
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Reales Astilleros De Esteiro
The Real Astillero de Esteiro (in English: Esteiro Royal Dockyards) was a royal shipyard in Ferrol in Spain. Orders for its construction were issued by Ferdinand VI of Spain on 9 April 1749, following the decision by the naval minister Zenón de Somodevilla, 1st Marqués de la Ensenada, to build new naval fortifications and installations in Ferrol and its surrounding area. Initial construction was managed by Cosme Álvarez, Comandante General of the Department. It was sited on the northwest slope of the monte Esteiro near Ferrol. It was initially planned to have four levels, but by the end this rose to twelve, proportional to the mountain's slope. Barracks, workshops and warehouses were also built. Ships built at Esteiro 'Apostles' At its height, through an order by the Marquis de la Ensenada dated 15 July 1752, the shipyard simultaneously built twelve 68-gun ships of the line simultaneously, popularly known as the "Twelve Apostles" or "Apostolate" class. The survivors of this gr ...
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Spanish Ship Europa
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The Spanish Royal Academy Of Naval Engineers
The Spanish Royal Academy of Naval Engineers is a military naval academy in Ferrol, Spain, founded in 1772, during the reign Charles III of Spain. The purpose of this Royal Academy was to train the future members of the 1770 newly created Professional Body. See also * School of Naval and Industrial Engineers The School of Naval and Industrial Engineers (also Escuela de Peritos Navales de Ferrol and Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica Naval de Ferrol) was created in 1963 by a Ministerial Order from Madrid, in accordance with a direct initiativ ..., Ferrol, 1963 References {{navy-stub 1772 establishments in Spain Educational institutions established in 1772 Spanish Navy Spanish Naval Engineers Charles III of Spain ...
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Naval Structure Of The Spanish Navy In The New Millennium
The Spanish Navy, officially the Armada, is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Spanish Navy was responsible for a number of major historic achievements in navigation, the most famous being the discovery of North America and the first global circumnavigation. For several centuries, it played a crucial logistical role in the expansion and consolidation of the Spanish Empire, and defended a vast trade network across the Atlantic Ocean between the Americas and Europe, and the Manila Galleon across the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and the Americas. The Spanish Navy was one of the most powerful maritime forces in the world from the late 15th century to mid-18th century. In the early 19th century, with the loss of most of its empire, the Spanish navy transitioned to a smaller fleet but it still maintained a significant shipbuilding capability and produced the first fully capable military submarine. ...
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Ferrol, A Coruña
Ferrol (, ) is a city in the province of A Coruña in Galicia, Spain, located in the Rías Altas, in the vicinity of Strabo's Cape Nerium (modern-day Cape Prior). According to the 2021 census, the city had a population of 64,785, making it the seventh-largest settlement in Galicia. With Eume to the south and Ortegal to the north, Ferrol forms the ''comarca'' of Ferrolterra. Around a hundred years ago, and earlier, the harbour, with its depth, capacity and overall safety, had few equals in Europe; its entrance was very narrow, commanded by forts, and could even be shut by a boom. Ferrol has been a major naval shipbuilding centre for most of its history, being the capital of the Spanish Navy's Maritime Department of the North since the time of the early Bourbons. In the 17th century, Ferrol held the largest arsenal in Europe. Today, the city contains several major shipbuilding yards belonging to the Navantia Group. Ferrol was the birthplace of the dictator Francisco Franco in ...
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HMS Santa Dorothea (1798)
HMS ''Santa Dorothea'' was a Royal Navy 34-gun fifth-rate. This frigate had previously served in the Spanish Navy under the name ''Santa Dorotea''. Built in Spain in 1775, she served during the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars until being captured while sailing as part of a squadron off Cartagena. Taken into British service, she spent the rest of the French Revolutionary and most of the Napoleonic Wars under the white ensign until being broken up in 1814. Spanish career and capture ''Santa Dorotea'' was built in Ferrol in 1775. In 1798, she was assigned to a small frigate squadron under Commodore Don Felix O'Neil and departed Cartagena in company with the frigates ''Pomona'', ''Proserpine'', and ''Santa Cazilda'' on 8 July. ''Santa Dorotea''s captain for the expedition was Don Manuel Gerraro. Their attempts to raid shipping in the area were unsuccessful, and while returning to port at 09:00 on 15 July, the 64-gun HMS ''Lion'', under Captain Manley Dixon, spot ...
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Spanish Ship Argonauta (1798)
The Spanish ship ''Argonauta'' was an 80 gun ship of the line of the Spanish Navy. She initially had 24, 18 and 8 pounder guns spread over her lower, upper, quarter and forecastle decks, but by 1805 she carried 36-pounders instead of 24-pounders. Her original crew was 21 officers and 642 ratings and soldiers, though it was 956 at the Battle of Cape Finisterre and 800 at Trafalgar. History A sister ship of the ''Neptuno'', she was ordered in November 1795 and launched in June 1798 in Ferrol, to the design of Julian Martín Retamosa. On 25 August 1800, she and the other ships of Joaquín Moreno's squadron (the '' Real Carlos'', '' San Hermenegildo'', ''San Fernando'', ''San Antonio'' and ''San Agustín'') fought off the British Ferrol Expedition. By 1805 her original main battery of thirty 24-pounder guns had been replaced by the same number of 36-pounders. Unlike her sister ''Neptuno'', the ''Argonauta'' retained her upper deck batter of thirty-two 18-pounders; the original qu ...
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Spanish Ship Neptuno (1795)
''Neptuno'' was an 80-gun Neptuno-class ship of the line, ''Neptuno''-class ship of the line of the Spanish Navy. She was built in 1795 and took part in the French Revolutionary Wars, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. She fought with the Franco-Spanish fleet in the battle of Trafalgar, and was wrecked in its aftermath. ''Neptuno'' was built at Ferrol, Spain, Ferrol and launched in 1795. She entered service in time to support an attempt to unite with a French force and land troops in England, but the Spanish fleet under Admiral José de Córdoba y Ramos was intercepted and engaged by a British fleet under John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, Sir John Jervis. ''Neptuno'' did not take part in the battle of Cape St Vincent (1797), battle, having been sent into port beforehand. Several years later she was in a Spanish port when the combined Franco-Spanish fleet under Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve arrived, having sailed to the West Indies and back, and been engaged by a ...
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Spanish Ship Montañés (1794)
''Montañés'' was a 74 gun third-rate Spanish ship of the line. The Montañés-class ship of the line, name ship of her class, she was built in the Ferrol, Galicia, Ferrol shipyards and paid for by the people of Cantabria. Following José Romero y Fernández de Landa's system under which the ''San Ildefonso'' 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 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 Spanish ship Neptuno (1795), ''Neptuno'' and Spanish ship Argonauta (1798), ''Argomauta'' would be built. In 1795 she fought a French force o ...
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Spanish Ship Monarca (1794)
''Monarca'' was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Spanish Navy. She was ordered by a royal order of 28 September 1791, built in the Reales Astilleros de Esteiro shipyard and launched on 17 March 1794. Designed by José Romero Fernández de Landa and belonging to the , her main guns were distributed along two complete decks, with twenty-eight 24-pounders in her first battery (lower deck) and thirty 18-pounders in her second battery (upper deck). Additionally on completion she had ten 8-pounders on her quarterdeck and six 8-pounders on her forecastle, although these guns were altered during her life. History She underwent proving trials between September and November 1794 alongside the , also launched in 1794 but designed by Julián Martín de Retamosa (Romero de Landa's successor), aiming to work out whose method of construction was best. The trials were overseen by José Justo Salceno and the results favoured the ''Montañés''. The ''Monarca'' was assigned to Juan de L ...
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Spanish Ship Reina María Luisa (1791)
''Reina Luisa'' (sometimes referred to as ''Reina María Luisa'' as she was named for Queen Maria Luisa) was a 112-gun three-decker ship of the line built at Ferrol for the Spanish Navy in 1791 to plans by José Joaquín Romero Fernández de Landa. One of the eight very large ships of the line (''navíos'' in Spanish) of the '' Santa Ana'' class, also known as ''Los Meregildos''. The ''Reina Luisa'' served in the Spanish Navy for three decades throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, finally being wrecked off Béjaïa in 1815. Although she was a formidable part of the Spanish battlefleet throughout these conflicts, she did not participate in any major operations. Construction The ''Santa Ana'' class was built for the Spanish fleet in the 1780s and 1790s as heavy ships of the line, the equivalent of Royal Navy first rate ships. The other ships of the class were the Spanish ship Santa Ana, ''Santa Ana'', Spanish ship Mexicano (1786), ''Mexicano'', Spanish ship Sal ...
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Spanish Ship Salvador Del Mundo (1787)
''Salvador del Mundo'' was a 112-gun three-decker ship of the line built at Ferrol for the Spanish Navy in 1787 to plans by Romero Landa, one of the eight very large ships of the line of the '' Santa Ana'' class, also known as ''los Meregildos''. ''Salvador del Mundo'' served during the French Revolutionary Wars until its capture at the Battle of Cape St Vincent by a Royal Navy fleet on 14 February 1797. ''Salvador del Mundo'' remained in British hands throughout the Napoleonic Wars, serving as a harbour ship, until it was sold and broken up in 1815. Construction The ''Santa Ana'' class was built for the Spanish fleet in the 1780s and 1790s as heavy ships of the line, the equivalent of Royal Navy first rate ships. The other ships of the class were the ''Santa Ana'', ''Mexicano'', ''San Hermenegildo'', ''Conde de Regla'', ''Real Carlos'', ''Reina María Luisa'' and '' Príncipe de Asturias''. Three of the class, including ''Salvador del Mundo'', were captured or destroye ...
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