HMS San Josef (1797)

HMS San Josef as a gunnery training ship in Plymouth.
History
Spain
Name	San José
Ordered	28 July 1781
Builder	Ferrol
Laid down	9 November 1782
Launched	30 June 1783
Captured	By the Royal Navy on 14 February 1797
Great Britain
Name	HMS San Josef
Acquired	Captured on 14 February 1797
Reclassified	Gunnery training ship in 1837
Fate	Broken up in May 1849
General characteristics
Class and type	114-gun first rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	2456 tons
Length	194 ft 3 in (59.21 m) (gundeck) 156 ft 11 in (47.83 m) (keel)
Beam	54 ft 3 in (16.54 m)
Depth of hold	24 ft 3.5 in (7.404 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	839
Armament	Lower gundeck: 32 × 32-pounder guns Middle gundeck: 32 × 24-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 32 × 12-pounder guns Quarterdeck: 12 × 9-pounder guns Forecastle: 6 × 4-pounder guns

HMS San Josef was a 114-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Originally built at Ferrol in Galicia for the Spanish Navy in 1782–83, she was captured from the Spanish Navy at the Battle of Cape St Vincent on 14 February 1797 (when she was still named in Spanish San José). In 1809 she served as the flagship of Admiral John Thomas Duckworth.^[1]