&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:AmazonevSantaMargarita.jpg) Action between Amazone and HMS Santa Margarita – cutting the prize adrift, 30 July 1782
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| History | |
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| Name | Santa Margarita |
| Launched | 1774 |
| Captured | 11 November 1779, by the Royal Navy |
 Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Santa Margarita |
| Acquired | 11 November 1779 |
| Fate | Sold on 8 September 1836 |
| General characteristics [1][2] | |
| Class and type | 36-gun fifth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen | 992 bm |
| Length | 145 ft 6 in (44.3 m) |
| Beam | 38 ft 11 in (11.9 m) |
| Depth of hold | 11 ft 9 in (3.6 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 240 (255 from 21 December 1780) |
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HMS Santa Margarita was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had been built for service with the Spanish Navy, but was captured after five years in service, eventually spending nearly 60 years with the British.
- ^ Winfield (2007), p. 213.
- ^ Colledge & Warlow (2006), p. 306.