Spanish ship Mexicano
| History | |
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| Spain | |
| Name | Mexicano |
| Builder | Havanna |
| Launched | 20 January 1786 |
| Fate | Sold, Ferrol, 1815 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Santa Ana-class ship of the line |
| Tonnage | 2,112 tonnes |
| Length | 56.14 m |
| Beam | 15.5 m |
| Draught | 7.37 m |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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Mexicano (or Mejicano) was a 112-gun ship of the line of the Spanish Navy built at Havana in 1786 to plans by José Romero y Fernández de Landa. One of the eight very large ships of the line of the Santa Ana class, also known as los Meregildos. Mexicano served in the Spanish Navy for three decades throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, finally being sold at Ferrol in 1815. Although she was a formidable part of the Spanish battlefleet throughout these conflicts, the only major action Mexicano participated in was the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797.