HMS Defiance (1783)
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HMS Defiance was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Randall and Co., at Rotherhithe on the River Thames, and launched on 10 December 1783.
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Defiance at Copenhagen, 1801
San Juan Nepomuceno was a Spanish ship of the line launched in 1765 from the royal shipyard in Guarnizo. Like many 18th century Spanish warships she was named after a saint. She was a solidly built sh
HMS Defiance (1783)
…Captain Philip Charles Durham, who claimed that "she was the fastest 74 gun ship in the British fleet". At Trafalgar the Defiance captured the Spanish San Juan Nepomuceno, and the French Aigle (although the following day the French crew managed to recapture the Aigle from the British prize crew shortly before she was…
Illustration of San Juan Nepomuceno
Death of Cosme de Churruca, by Eugenio Álvarez Dumont, Museo del Prado