Rayo

Wrecked

Type	Ship of the line
Rate	Third rate
Guns	80
Wars	American War of Independence, Napoleonic Wars

Refits

1803–1805

Rebuilt as a three-decker of 100 guns.

80-gun ship, at Cape Spartel. Later rebuilt as a three-decker. She came through Trafalgar but was wrecked in the storm a few days later.

Dirección completa de la ubicación en la Real Biblioteca: http://realbiblioteca.patrimonionacional.es/search*spi?/Xnavio&SORT=D&searchscope=5/Xnavio&SORT=D&searchscope=5&SUBKEY=navio/1%2C9%2C9%2CB/frameset&FF=Xnavio&SORT=D&searchscope=5&2%2C2%2C Photo: Honorato Bouyon, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

As an 80-gun ship (1751)
30 × 24-pounder guns
32 × 18-pounder guns
18 × 8-pounder guns
2 × 3-pounder guns
As a 100-gun ship (1803)
30 × 36-pounder guns
32 × 8-pounder guns
6 × 18-pounder carronades

Builder	Royal Dockyard, La Habana
Laid down	1 January 1747
Launched	28 June 1749
Commissioned	31 January 1751
Length	55 m (180 ft 5 in)
Complement	80 guns, 1752: 453 men 100 guns, at Trafalgar: 812 men

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

28 June 1749

Battle of Cape Spartel

Survived

20 October 1782 · American War of Independence

Posada's flagship

Battle of Trafalgar

Wrecked

21 October 1805 · Napoleonic Wars

Escaped, then wrecked after the sortie of 23 October