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San Antonio, 1801
Type: 3rd rate ; Armament 74
Launched : Taken 1801 ;
BM: 1700 tons
Notes:
1801 Portsmouth in Ordinary
1805 Portsmouth repairing
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9 July 1801
The Saint-Antoine, which, on account of the miserable fate of the two Spanish three-deckers, was the only trophy carried off by the British, became afterwards added to the navy of her captors; but being an old 74 of only 1700 tons, the ship never quitted Portsmouth after she arrived there. By way of perpetuating an acknowledged error in the official letter of Captain Keats to Sir James Saumarez, the Saint-Antoine, both in Steel's lists and in the navy-office books, continued, and in the latter still continues to be called the San-Antonio.