HMS Santa Dorothea (1798)

Capture of Santa Dorothea, 15 July 1798, by Thomas Whitcombe, 1816
History
Spain
Name	Santa Dorotea
Builder	Ferrol
Launched	1775
Captured	By the Royal Navy, 15 July 1798
Great Britain
Name	Santa Dorothea
Acquired	15 July 1798 by capture
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1]
Fate	Broken up in June 1814
General characteristics
Class and type	34-gun fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	95766⁄94 (bm)
Length	146 ft 9 in (44.7 m) (overall) 118 ft 4+1⁄2 in (36.1 m) (keel)
Beam	39 ft (11.9 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft (3.66 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	240
Armament	Upper deck: 26 × 12-pounder guns QD: 6 × 6-pounder guns + 6 × 24-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 24-pounder carronades

HMS Santa Dorothea was a Royal Navy 34-gun fifth-rate. This frigate had previously served in the Spanish Navy under the name Santa Dorotea. Built in Spain in 1775, she served during the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars until being captured while sailing as part of a squadron off Cartagena. Taken into British service, she spent the rest of the French Revolutionary and most of the Napoleonic Wars under the white ensign until being broken up in 1814.