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>>>These data are from “Le Clef du cabinets des >princes >>>de l’Europeâ€�, t. 82, # 1, Luxembourg, 1745, p. >>>222-223: >>> >>>In the beginning of 1745 (5 January) the following >>>Spanish ships entered Santander: San Josef (2nd name >>>Rayo), Brillant and Parfaite (Perfecta?), and >Glorioso >>>and Castilla arrived at La Corunna, with 18 mln >pesos, >>>commanded by Liet.-Gen. Torres. They left Havana 56 >>>days ago. >> >>I will look it over, but from my sources, arrived to >>La Corunna the 5th of january, only Gloriso & >Castilla. >>I have notes that say they left La Habana with Europa, >> Brillante, privateer Flecha (6 guns) & 4 merchantmen, >>but only these 2 first entered at La Corunna, the rest >>may entered at Cadiz ?!??! > >Well, Ted's source, an annual (monthly?) news magazine >or alamanc published in France and Luxembourg, says >that <i>San Josef (Rayo), Brillant</i> and ><i>Parfaite</i> continued on to SANTANDER. > >I'm not home so I don't have St. Hubert's list of >Spanish SOL, but on the todoababor list I don't find a >«San Josef,» «San José,» or «Rayo» as a Spanish SOL at >this time, so that would appear to have been a >merchantman. > >There was an HCMS <i>Brillante,</i> 66, in the Spanish >navy in 1745 (she fought at the Battle of Toulon in >February 1744) but from the history on the todoababor >list, she appears to have been in the Mediterranean in >January 1745. Therefore, «Brillant» seems to have >been another of the merchant ships. > >There's no «Perfecta» on the todoababor list and it's >not familiar to me as the name of a Spanish SOL, so it >would appear to be either a Spanish or possibly a >French merchant ship. Louis XV declared war on Great >Britain in February 1744, so after that French >merchant ships also required convoy against British >warships and privateers. Some of the Spanish American >trade was in French hands. «Brillant» might have been >a French merchantman. She and «Parfait» might have >been in Havana on trading missions, or might have gone >there from St.-Domingue to join the ><i>Glorioso/Castilla</i> convoy. (This was the 60-gun ><i>Castilla II</i> built in Havana in 1737. ><i>Glorioso</i> made another specie-carrying trip in >1747. She beat off a attack by a British 60 and 44 in >mid-Atlantic and delivered her cargo to a small port >near Vigo but was captured by a British 80 trying to >make Cadiz after beating off a British privateer and >blowing up a British 50.)

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