Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Spanish frigate El Gamo
19th-century Spanish ship From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
El Gamo was a 32-gun xebec-frigate of the Spanish Navy captured by the Royal Navy sloop-of-war HMS Speedy in the action of 6 May 1801. The engagement was notable for the large disparity between the size and firepower of El Gamo and Speedy; the former was around four times the size, had much greater firepower and a crew six times the size of Speedy, which had a reduced crew of 54 at the time.[1] After her capture, the British sold El Gamo to the Regency of Algiers as a merchant ship.
Remove ads
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads