Action of 18 March 1748

Action of 18 March 1748
Part of the War of Jenkins' Ear

A portrait of the British commander Thomas Cotes
Date18 March 1748
Location
Off Cape St Vincent, Atlantic Ocean
Result British victory
Belligerents
 Great Britain Spain
Commanders and leaders
Thomas Cotes Juan de Egues
Strength
4 ships of the line
2 frigates		 9 ships of the line
17 merchant ships
Casualties and losses
Unknown 5 merchant ships captured[1]

The action of 18 March 1748 was a naval engagement during the War of Jenkins' Ear in which a fleet of six Royal Naval vessels captured a number of merchantman in a successful engagement against a Spanish convoy escorted by nine ships of the line and frigates.[2]

  1. ^ Harding p 332
  2. ^ Keppel, Thomas Robert (1842). The Life of Augustus, Viscount Keppel, Admiral of the White, and First Lord of the Admiralty in 1782-3. H. Colburn. p. 132. Thomas Cotes march 1748 spanish convoy.