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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=Great Britain | Ship flag= | Ship name=HMS Princessa | Ship ordered= | Ship builder= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship acquired=16 January 1780 | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Broken up, 1809 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=[1] | Ship class=70-gun third rate ship of the line | Ship tons burthen=1966 | Ship length=170 ft 2½ in (51.9 m) (gundeck) | Ship beam=51 ft 2 in (15.6 m) | Ship draught= | Ship hold depth=22 ft 1 in (6.7 m) | Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship | Ship propulsion=Sails | Ship complement= | Ship armament=70 guns of various weights of shot | Ship notes=
}} | Princesa was a 70-gun ship of the line of the Spanish Navy, launched in 1750. She fought at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1780, where she was captured by the Royal Navy and commissioned as the third rate HMS Princessa. From 1784 she was employed as a sheer hulk, and she was broken up in 1809. Notes1. ^Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1. p182.
References{{refbegin}}- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}.
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