SAN JOSÉ ship-of-the-line 1783

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Built as three decker ship-of-the-line At the Royal Navy Yard at Ferrol for the Spanish Navy.
Launched in 1783 under the name SAN JOSE.
Tonnage 2163 tons, dim. 213.8 x 58 x 28.3ft., length of keel 186.9ft, draught aft 29ft.
Armament 30 – 36pdr., 30 – 24pdr., 32 – 12pdr., 18 -8pdr. and 6 – 24pdr. mortars for firing grapeshot.
Copper sheathed.
Crew 917.
Designed by Gautier.

She was a sistership of the PURISIMA CONCEPCIÓN.
1784 Was she under command of Don Felipe López Carrizosa.
She was captured by HMS CAPTAIN in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent on 14 February 1797, when she was entered and boarded by men from the CAPTAIN under command of Nelson.
The SAN JOSE was used as flagship by Almirante Don Francisco Javier de Winthuysen y Pinade (1747-1797), during this battle she got 46 men killed under which the Almirante and had 96 wounded.

The SAN JOSE her hull full of gunshots was towed by a British frigate to Lagos, Portugal during the tow she met bad weather and the British were planning to set her on fire, but before the weather changed and she was safely towed to Lagos where she arrived 16 February.
From March 1797 under command of Capt. Charles Lindsey, from April 1797 under command of Capt. Charles Stuart.
05 October 1797 arrived at Plymouth and fitted out from June 1790 till January 1801.
December 1800 commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS SAN JOSEF under command of Capt. Thomas Masterman Hardy, and flagship of Lord Nelson for a short time.
A unit of the Channel Fleet, under command of Lord St Vincent. Nelson received orders to sail from Plymouth on 1 February 1801 and got at anchor the next day at Tor Bay. 18 February Nelson received orders to host his flag at HMS ST GEORGE and Captain Wolesley of that ship took over command of the SAN JOSEF, and she was then flagship of Admiral Hon. W. Cornwallis.
February 1802 under command of Capt. James Carpenter.
April 1802 decommissioned, following the Peace of Amiens on 27 March.
April 1803 recommissioned under command of Capt. Peter Spicer, when resumption of the war seemed likely.
He was later replaced in June by Capt. John Tremayne Rodd when Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Cotton hoisted his flag at the SAN JOSEF.
12 October 1803 she sailed out to join the fleet for blockade service off Brest.
On 27 December Admiral Cornwallis reported that gales had driven the SAN JOSEF, VILLE DE PARIS and DREADNOUGHT between the Lizard and their correct station off Brest and on the 30th they arrived in Torbay after experiencing dreadful weather.
Men from the slaughterhouse at Plymouth were sent to Torbay to assist those there in providing fresh beef for the ships and lighters were taken up to supply them with beer. Cornwallis talked of getting to sea and resuming his station in a very few days and ordered the ships in Cawsand Bay to get ready to join him.
01 January 1804 he sailed from Torbay and was joined off Plymouth by NEPTUNE and COLOSSUS. The other vessels that were to have joined him the following day had to wait for wind.
01 January command was taken over by Capt. John Dodd.
SAN JOSEF was joined off Brest by some of the ships that had separated during the gale.
There was another severe gale on the 19th, which drove the squadron north off station. SAN JOSEF returned to Plymouth for bullocks in February and sailed again for the fleet on the 13th. The men, who had been “knocked up” by hard duty and fatigue during the gales, had all recovered.
On 21 July Admiral Cornwallis returned to Plymouth for a refit leaving Vice Admiral Cotton on board SAN JOSEF in command.
September command taken over by Capt. Tristram Ricketts
Later that year Vice Admiral Cotton shifted his flag to HMS PRINCE while SAN JOSEF had a refit at Plymouth till August 1805.
Vice Admiral Cotton thereafter returned to the SAN JOSEF.
May 1806 under command of Capt. Robert Neve, relieved in January 1807 by Capt John Cann.
June 1807 paid off for large repair and a refit at Plymouth till June 1809, for a total cost of £89.308.

May 1809 re-commissioned under command of Capt. Richard Dunn for the Walcheren, Netherlands expedition. Her crew assisted in manning gunboat No 67 during the attack on Vlissingen (Flushing) between 8 and 15 August 1809, she got 4 men wounded.
May 1810 again under command of Capt Robert Neve bound for the Mediterranean. 15 July strong gales forced the fleet from its station off Toulon. They sought shelter under Levant Island but were driven as far to the eastward as Villefrance before reaching the rendezvous off Cape Sicie to meet Capt Blackwood commanding the inshore squadron.
Her commander changed a few times before July 1811 when command was taken over by Capt. George McKinley and she returned to the U.K., a unit of the Channel Fleet.
23 February 1812 Admiral Charles Cotton (1753-1812) died when he collapsed and died of apoplexy at Plymouth, when inspecting his fleet in winter berths.
March 1812 under command of Capt. Robert Jackson as flagship of Admiral Lord Keithin in the Channel Fleet.
January 1813 under command of Capt. Henry Bouchier. In March SAN JOSEF was lying alongside the CAPTAIN, hulk, off the jetty-head at Plymouth, removing her stores before being docked and fitted out as flagship of Rear-Admiral Edward Foote. A fire broke out in the CAPTAIN, hulk on the 23rd and if the mooring lines not had been cut and hawsers got out to pull her clear, SAN JOSEF would have been burnt.
Capt Bouchier had already transferred his property and this was destroyed.
April 1813 under command of Capt. William Stewart as flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Richard King, and sailed for the Mediterranean.
05 November 1813 she came in action against the French fleet off Toulon, in which two crewmembers were wounded, losing a leg by an unlucky gunshot.
July 1814 sailed for the U.K., command was taken over by Capt. Edward Barnard, there. He was relieved in April 1815 by Capt Jeffrey Raigerfield.
July 1815 decommissioned at Plymouth and put in Ordinary. During that time she was fitted out for sea from April till August 1815, after the refit laid up at Plymouth.
From December 1831 till January 1831 fitted out as flagship.
August 1836 till January 1837 fitted out for the Captain of the Ordinary at Plymouth.
January 1837 re-commissioned as gunnery training ship at Plymouth.
1846 Paid off.
May 1849 broken up at Plymouth.

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Source: http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhill ... p?ref=1956 Trafalgar and the Spanish Navy by Harbron. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817 by Winfield. And some other internet sides.