HMS Calpe (1800)

History
Spain
Name	San José
Launched	1796
Captured	By the Royal Navy, 27 October 1800
General characteristics (in Spanish service)
Type	Polacca
Complement	34 seamen & 22 soldiers
Armament	14 guns
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Calpe
Acquired	By capture, 27 October 1800
Honours and; awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Gut of Gibraltar 12 July 1801"
Fate	Sold, 1802
United Kingdom
Name	Calpe
Owner	W. Boyd
Acquired	By purchase
Fate	Wrecked 1805
General characteristics (in British service)
Type	Sloop-of-war
Tons burthen	209, or 211, or 212 (bm)
Length	75 ft 4 in (23.0 m) (overall):; 57 ft 0 in (17.4 m) (keel);
Beam	26 ft 3 in (8.0 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Complement	49 seamen + 22 soldiers
Armament	HMS; 2 × long 24-pounder guns (bows); 2 × long brass 18-pounder guns (stern); 4 × 12 pounder & 4 × 4-pounder guns; Merchantman:8 × 4-pounder guns + 2 × 12-pounder guns (of the "New Construction");

HMS Calpe was the former 14-gun polacca San José of the Spanish Navy, originally built in 1796 in Greece. The British captured her in 1800 and commissioned her as a sloop-of-war. She served at the Battle of Algeciras Bay before the Navy sold her in 1802. She underwent repairs and reappeared as a merchantman in the 1805 registers; however, she wrecked at the Dardanelles in 1805.

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