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> >>>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. > >I think so too Albert, no San Jose aka Rayo >around...Gipuzcoa Indian Co.? > >I only have on launched at La Habana in 1743 called >Invencible, aka San Jose...but looks dificult to be >the same....set on fire at El Ferrol in 1750. > > >>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. > >My sources said that it was at Cadiz under reparis, I >guess from the Battle of Toulon, in aug 1744...so it >is difficult to be ready and left Cadiz to La Habana >to return back with Torres' fleet on oct 25th...but >could be...its something I am looking for... > >> Therefore, «Brillant» seems to have been another of >the >merchant ships. > >Yes, could be a Guipuzcoa Indian Company's ship, based >in Santander....ocourious that Brillante was a former >merchantmen called Nuestra Sennora del Rosario or a >french privateer. > >>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.. > >Yes, no Perfecta, unless french privateer or Guipuzcoa >Indian Company...I will look it up but it is difficult. > >>This was the 60-gun Castilla II built in Havana in >1737. > >Yes, this looks like is correct. > >><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.) > >Yes. > >Regards.

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