[3] The British came up and found her to be the Princesa, carrying 64 guns and a crew of 650 under the command of Don Pablo Augustín de Gera.

'[5] After a two and half hour chase the British were able to come alongside and exchange broadsides, which eventually left the Spanish ship disabled.

A contemporary description noted that she was larger than any British first rate and carried unusually large guns, many of them brass.

[4] She was described as the finest ship in the Spanish Navy, with her high build allowing her to open her lower gunports in conditions that meant that her opponents could not.

[8] She was renamed HMS Princess and served in the Royal Navy until she was finally sold for breaking up on 30 December 1784 at Portsmouth.