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. In 1809 she served as the flagship of Admiral John Thomas Duckworth.
HMS San Josef as a gunnery training ship in Plymouth.
Nelson receives the surrender of the San José from her captain, the Spanish Admiral, Don Francisco Javier Winthuysen y Pineda lies mortally wounded on the deck
Print of San José in Spanish service
HMS San Josef in later Royal Naval service
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)
The Battle of Cape St. Vincent was one of the opening battles of the Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808), as part of the French Revolutionary Wars, where a British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeated a greatly superior Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba y Ramos near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal.
The Battle of Cape St. Vincent, 14 February 1797 by Robert Cleveley
Admiral Sir John Jervis
José de Córdoba
Battle off Cape St. Vincent, 1797 by William Adolphus Knell