Spanish ship Reina María Luisa (1791)
Spanish ship Reina María Luisa | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Spain | |
| Name | Reina Luisa |
| Builder | Reales Astilleros de Esteiro, Ferrol |
| Launched | 12 September 1791 |
| Renamed | Fernando VII, 1809 |
| Fate | Foundered off Béjaïa, 10 December 1815 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Santa Ana-class ship of the line |
| Tonnage | 4,341 tons displacements |
| Tons burthen | 2,308 tons |
| Length | 58.506 m |
| Beam | 16.159 m |
| Draught | 8.024 m |
| Depth of hold | 7.542 ms |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 801 |
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Reina Luisa (sometimes referred to as Reina María Luisa as she was named for Queen Maria Luisa) was a 112-gun three-decker ship of the line built at Ferrol for the Spanish Navy in 1791 to plans by José Joaquín Romero Fernández de Landa. One of the eight very large ships of the line (navíos in Spanish) of the Santa Ana class, also known as Los Meregildos. The Reina Luisa served in the Spanish Navy for three decades throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, finally being wrecked off Béjaïa in 1815. Although she was a formidable part of the Spanish battlefleet throughout these conflicts, she did not participate in any major operations.