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Action of 15 January 1782
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Part of
American Revolutionary War
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Date
| 15 January 1782
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Location
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Result
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British victory
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Belligerents
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Great Britain
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Spain
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Commanders and leaders
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Thomas Windsor
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Unknown
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Strength
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1 frigate
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2 armed merchant frigates
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Casualties and losses
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2 killed
7 wounded
[1]
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Both captured
[2]
41 killed & wounded
205 captured
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- Europe and Atlantic
- Gulf Coast
- Louisiana and Northwest Territory
- Central America
- West Indies
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The
action of 15 January 1782
was a minor naval engagement that occurred near the island of Jamaica during the
American Revolutionary War
. A
Royal Naval
frigate,
HMS
Fox
, intercepted and engaged two Spanish
merchant frigates
, one of 26 guns and the other of 20.
[3]
[4]
[2]
[5]
Fox
was a 32-gun
Active
-class
fifth-rate
frigate commanded by Captain Thomas Windsor from 1781. While on a cruise near Jamaica, he saw two sail and then went to intercept; they were two small Spanish frigates and thus Windsor showed his colours.
[1]
The Spanish armed merchantmen, 26-gun
Socorro Guipuzcoano
and 20-gun
Dama Vizcaina
, tried to escape, but
Fox
overhauled them both. They engaged
Fox
for nearly an hour before finally
striking the colors
.
Fox
had one
boatswain
and one seaman killed, and seven others wounded.
[1]
The two Spanish ships had been bound to Havana, Cuba, from San Sebastian, Spain. The prizes were carried into Jamaica and the prize money was distributed accordingly, making Windsor and his crew rich men.
[5]
For his action, Windsor was promoted and went on to command
HMS
Lowestoffe
on 31 January.
[6]
Liverpool investors purchased one of the two prizes, named her
Nancy
, and sailed her to England. There she became the
slave ship
Golden Age
.
Citations
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edit
]
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a
b
c
Beatson, Robert (1804).
Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain: From the Year 1727, to the Present Time Volume 5
. J. Strachan & P. Hill, Edinburgh. p. 536.
- ^
a
b
Southey, Thomas (1827).
Chronological History of the West Indies: In Three Volumes, Volume 2
. Longman. p. 540.
- ^
Gaceta de Madrid
- N. 1-52, p. 500
- ^
Garay, p. 131.
- ^
a
b
Boswell, James (1782).
The Scots Magazine, Volume 44
. Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran. p. 163.
- ^
Winfield p. 190
References
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edit
]
- Clowes, William Laird (2003).
The Royal Navy: v. 4: A History - From the Earliest Times to 1900
. Chatham Publishing.
ISBN
978-1861760128
.
- Gaceta de Madrid
(in Spanish). 1781.
- Garay Unibaso, Francisco (1987).
Francisco Garay Unibaso: Correos maritimos espanoles: Correos maritimos espanoles a la America Espanola (Yndias Occidentales) de 1514 a 1827
(in Spanish). Ediciones Mensajero.
- Lovejoy, Henry B. (2018).
Prieto: Yoruba Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions
. UNC Press.
ISBN
9781469645384
.
- Winfield, Rif (2007).
British Warships of the Age of Sail
. Seaforth Publishing.
ISBN
9781844157006
.