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Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad, nicknamed La Real, was a Spanish first-rate ship of the line and was the largest warship in the world when launched. She originally had 112 guns; this was increased in 1795–96 to 130 guns by closing in the spar deck between the quarterdeck and forecastle.
Real was built in Barcelona at the Royal Shipyard in 1568 and was the largest galley of its time. [1] Real was usually the designation of the flagship in a particular Spanish fleet and was not necessarily the actual name of the ship.
The Spanish term for ships of the line was navíos, but during the latter part of the Habsburg era (until 1700) ships continued to be designated as galeón. Those ships with secular names (e.g. royal, geographical or adjectival names) were additionally given an official religious name (or advocación ) which appears below in parentheses ...
These shipyards became part of the Spanish Naval Construction Society (La Naval) where civil shipyards such as Matagorda in Puerto Real (Cádiz) or Sestao (Vizcaya) also belonged. The state took over the military arsenals at the end of the Spanish Civil War and formed the Empresa Nacional Bazán in 1947 to build ships using foreign technology.
Berenguela (English: Berengaria) was a screw frigate of the Spanish Navy commissioned in 1857, the first screw frigate to enter service in the Spanish Navy. She took part in the mulitnational intervention in Mexico in 1861–1862, several actions during the Chincha Islands War of 1865–1866, and the Spanish-Moro conflict in the early 1870s and was the first Spanish Navy ship to transit the ...
Compañía Transatlántica Española, S.A. (Transatlantic Company of Spain, abbreviated CTE), also known as the Spanish Line in English, was a passenger ocean line that has largely ceased operations although it still exists as a company. It is popularly known as "La Trasatlántica" in the Spanish language (Catalan: "La Transatlàntica").
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Real Carlos was a 112-gun three-decker ship of the line built at Havana for the Spanish Navy in 1787 to plans by Romero Landa. [1]One of the eight very large ships of the line of the Santa Ana class, also known as los Meregildos, Real Carlos served in the Spanish Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and was destroyed with heavy loss of life during the Second Battle of Algeciras.