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La Gata

33916
Nominal Guns2S001
NationalitySpain
OperatorPrivate Owners
First Mentioned2.4.1762S001
ShipyardUnknownS001
CategoryPrivateerS001
Ship TypeSchooner
Last knownS001

Armament


1762Broadside Weight = 4 Spanish libre (4.316 lbs 1.836 kg)S001
Location Unknown2 Spanish 4-Pounder
Location Unknown12 Spanish Pedreros

Crew Complement


Date# of MenNotesSource
176260 S001

1 Ship Commander


DatesRankNameSource
2.4.1762 - 6.5.1762Capitan de Corsario
Juan Pedro Cruz de BelefonteSpanish
Privateer
Service 1762
S001

3 Warrant Officers


DatesRankNameSource
2.4.1762 - 28.4.1762Capitan de presas
Tomas RoqueSpanish
Privateer
Service 1762
Transfered
S001
2.4.1762 - 28.4.1762Teniente de Corsario
Manuel DulaqSpanish
Privateer
Service 1762
Transfered
S001
2.4.1762 - 6.5.1762Teniente de Corsario
Agustín DamianSpanish
Privateer
Service 1762
S001

Service History


DateEventSource
2.4.1762Sailed from Pasajes S001
5.4.1762

Stops an English 300-ton ship that turns out to be a French prey heading for France.

S001
15.4.1762

He inspects a Dutch sloop, which he allows to follow, and is in turn pursued by two Dutch-flagged privateers (presumably English), from whom he flees.

Doggedly pursued by one of them, he finally confronts him, making him flee and initiating a brief chase.

S001
20.4.1762

Encounter with a French corsair with whom he sails together.

S001
23.4.1762

Near Baltimore (England) he disguises himself as a Portuguese ship and gets information on patrols and merchantmen in the area from an English sloop of war.

S001
25.4.1762

It reconnoitres Cork confirming a convoy of 20 merchantmen and four warships.

S001
26.4.1762

Attack the island of Belicoton with 16 sailors armed with rifles and cutlasses.
Population and garrison retreat into the bush. The poor booty is 16 rams.

On their departure they come across an English sloop which they plunder, taking 100 barrels of meat and 6 casks of Malaga wine.

 

S001
28.4.1762

At Cornwall . He disguises himself as an English privateer and obtains recent information from the area.

Captures a sloop and a brigantine, which he plunders.

It puts them under the command of Manuel Dulaq and Tomas Roque.

S001
5.5.1762

He fights a packet boat, which, better armed, makes him flee and chases him for some time.

S001
6.5.1762

Arrived at Santander (Spain)

S001


Sources


IDNameAuthorType
S001Archivo General de Simancas Book
 
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