What the records say
- When
- 11 Aug 1711
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 10.41° N, 75.53° W
- Description
- 1711 naval battle
- Naval
- yes
Capture of the galleon San Joaquin
1711 battle of the War of the Spanish Succession
The capture of the galleon San Joaquin was a naval engagement that took place off the coast near Cartagena. It involved five British ships of the line against the Spanish galleon San Joaquin and a smaller ship. After an action lasting barely an hour San Joaquin surrendered. The galleon had fought in the previous encounter during Wager's Action nearly three years earlier but had just barely escaped capture.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Capture of the galleon San Joaquin: Spanish galleon San Joaquin in a treasure fleet sailing from Cartagena de Indias (modern-day Colombia) to Spain surrenders…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page