HMS Santa Monica
HMS Santa Monica was a Spanish frigate which battled the British HMS Pearl in 1778, off the Azores. It was built in 1777 in Cartagena, Spain and launched as Santa Ammonica. It was taken as a prize in the 1778 battle, commissioned into the Royal Navy and renamed in 1779, but a few years later was grounded off Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, and was broken up. Its wreck was later found in what is now the territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
HMS Santa Monica | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
Pearl engaging Santa Ammonica off the Azores | |
| Location | Address restricted |
|---|---|
| Nearest city | Coral Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands |
| Area | less than one acre |
| NRHP reference No. | 78003163 |
| Added to NRHP | February 17, 1978 |
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