The Battle of San Domingo was a naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars fought on 6 February 1806 between squadrons of French and British ships of the line off the southern coast of the French-occupied Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Santo Domingo in the Caribbean.
Duckworth's Action off San Domingo, 6 February 1806, Nicholas Pocock
Vice-Admiral Corentin-Urbain Leissègues
Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth Henry William Beechey, 1809, National Maritime Museum
The Battle of San Domingo, 6 February 1806, with H.M.S. Canopus Joining the Action, Thomas Lyde Hornbrook
Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet
Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, 1st Baronet, GCB was an English officer of the Royal Navy, serving during the Seven Years' War, the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, as the Governor of Newfoundland during the War of 1812, and a member of the British House of Commons during his semi-retirement. Duckworth, a vicar's son, achieved much in a naval career that began at the age of 11.
Portrait by Sir William Beechey, 1810
Duckworth's Action off San Domingo, 6 February 1806 by Nicholas Pocock (1808). Duckworth's flagship, the 74-gun Superb, is shown firing at the French flagship, the 120-gun Imperial.
Duckworth's squadron forcing the Dardanelles
Duckworth depicted in his last year on a commemorative medal minted by his friends.