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>>Hello guys: I have sevrals years research about the >>ships that was burn by the british admiral verno in >>his retired of cartagena de indias in april 1741 . >>In several spanish resources tell that was burn as >>unservible the captured spanish flagship Galicia 70 >>guns and other 5 british ships of line (not the others >>ships of Blas de Lezo spanish). >> >>Can you tell me wich was this ships of line? >>If not have the names can you estimate the ships very >>damages with the casualities and with base in this can >>know that ships was descomissioned in england on >>1741-42? >> >>Is very important this information because the british >>resources only tell that the ships was damaged but not >>burn or descomissioned !!! >>thanks >>Andres > >I don't see any mention in Richmond of abandonment of >or burning of ships of the line (or any other British >vessels) at Cartagena. In his list of British losses >in vol. III, Clowes includes "<i>Galicia</i> (prize)" >as "Burnt as useless at Cartagena" on April 16 (o.s.), >1741. He lists no other British ships disposed of in >this way at Cartagena or anywhere else in 1741. Some >of Anson's ships were burnt as unserviceable, but they >were never anywhere near Cartagena, and their >destruction had nothing to do with Blaz de Lezo's >defense. > >Undoubtedly, some ships were broken up in England in >the course of the year 1741. I don't think the >British burned their unserviceable ships when they had >a chance to take them apart. > >I have a list of ships of the line in each belligerent >navy during the war of the Austrian Succession. As >far as I know, the following ships were in the British >navy on January 1, 1741 but not on January 1, 1742, >and thus were stricken at some time during 1742: >• Newark, 80 >• Hampton Court, 70 >• Canterbury, 60 >• Argyle, 50 >Other ships might have been taken out of commission, >never used at sea again, and disposed of after the war.

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