File:Capture of Princesa.jpg

English: The taking of the Princessa a Spanish Man of War, April 8, 1740, by his Majesties Ships the Lenox, Kent and Oxford This engraving depicts the taking of the Spanish 64-gun Princesa (spelt Princessa in the print) off Finisterre on 8 April 1840 by the British ships Lenox, Kent and Orford (incorrectly named in the print as Oxford). Princesa is shown port-broadside battered in the foreground with her masts broken and sails shot through, looking almost like a hulk. Meanwhile, one of the British ships is firing at her whilst the other two stay back. Engraving by Nathaniel Parr, after Peter Monamy. Printed by Bowles & Carver, and Robert Wilkinson. Text in English below image: 'The taking of the Princessa [sic] a Spanish Man of War, April 8, 1740, by his Majesties Ships the Lenox, Kent and Oxford. / N.B. Princessa had 68 guns mounted, but was capable of mounting 86. Her breadth by the beam is 50 feet 4 inches which is four Inches broader than our first Rates: 152 foot by the Keel, which is two foot longer / than our first Rates: 166 foot 3 inches on the Gun Deck, & draws 26 foot Water abaft and 23 1/2 before which is a great deal more than our first Rates draw. She had 600 Men on board of whom 200 were killed. Her / Commander was an Old experience Officer & bravely fought the Ship for 6 hours.'