Spanish ship Mexicano (1786)
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| Name: | Mexicano |
| Builder: | Havanna |
| Launched: | 20 January 1786 |
| Fate: | Sold, Ferrol, 1815 |
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| Class and type: | Santa Ana-class ship of the line |
| Tonnage: | 2,112 tonnes |
| Length: | 56.14 m |
| Beam: | 15.5 m |
| Draught: | 7.37 m |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
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| Armour: | None |
Mexicano (or Mejicano) was a 112-gun three-decker ship of the line built at Havanna for the Spanish Navy in 1786 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. Mexicano served in the Spanish Navy for three decades throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, finally being sold at Ferrol in 1815. Although she was a formidable part of the Spanish battlefleet throughout these conflicts, the only major action Mexicano participated in was the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797.
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, Conde de Regla, Salvador del Mundo, Real Carlos, San Hermenegildo, Reina María Luisa and Príncipe de Asturias. Three of the class were captured or destroyed during the French Revolutionary Wars. Mexicano was constructed at Havanna, built over eleven months in 1785 at a cost of 328,000 pesos, most of which was supplied by the Cabildo of New Spain, known as Mexico and from where the ship took its name.
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