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Príncipe de Asturias

Príncipe de Asturias

Captured

Royal Navy, then French Navy, then Spanish Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateThird rate
Guns70 guns
WarsWar of the Spanish Succession, War of the Quadruple Alliance

Service

to 1707Cumberland
from 1707Cumberland

Captured at the Lizard

to 1718Príncipe de Asturias

Sold to Spain

from 1718Príncipe de Asturias

Captured at Cape Passaro

Ship of the line, flagship of Rear-Admiral Francisco Chacón at Cape Passaro, taken by Breda and Captain. She was the former British Cumberland, captured by the French at the Lizard in 1707.

Career

Battle at the Lizard
Captured

as Cumberland

21 October 1707 · War of the Spanish Succession

As the British Cumberland; Commodore Richard Edwards

Joined the French Navy

21 October 1707 · Captured at the Lizard

Battle of Cape Passaro
Captured

as Cumberland

11 August 1718 · War of the Quadruple Alliance

Francisco Chacón

Joined the Royal Navy

11 August 1718 · Captured at Cape Passaro