Spanish ship San Hermenegildo (1789)
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| Name: | San Hermenegildo |
| Builder: | Havanna |
| Launched: | 20 January 1789 |
| Fate: | Destroyed in battle, Straits of Gibraltar, 1801 |
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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 |
| Complement: | 801 |
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| Armour: | None |
San Hermenegildo was a 112-gun three-decker ship of the line built at Havanna for the Spanish Navy in 1789 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. San Hermenegildo served in the Spanish Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and was destroyed with heavy loss of life during the Second Battle of Algeciras.
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, Salvador del Mundo, Conde de Regla, Real Carlos, Reina María Luisa and Príncipe de Asturias. Three of the class were captured or destroyed during the French Revolutionary Wars.
In 1793, during the War of the Pyrenees, San Hermenegildo was the flagship of the squadron under Federico Gravina in the Mediterranean operating off Catalonia. The squadron subsequently participated in the evacuation of Toulon during the last stage of the siege, alongside the British fleet under Vice-Admiral Samuel Hood.
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