History
Spain
NameVivo
BuilderCadiz
Launched1794
Captured30 September 1800
Great Britain
NameHMS Galgo
Acquired1800 by capture
FateSold 7 September 1801
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen21614⁄94 bm
Length
  • Overall: 80 ft 10+1⁄4 in (24.6 m)
  • Keel: 60 ft 6 in (18.4 m)
Beam25 ft 11 in (7.9 m)
Depth of hold10 ft 4 in (3.1 m)
Sail planBrig
Complement
  • Spanish service:100
  • British service:67 men
Armament
  • Spanish service: 14 × 8-pounder guns
  • British service: 14 × 18-pounder carronades

The Spanish brig Vivo, of the Spanish Royal Navy, was launched at Cadiz in 1794 (or possibly 1788).

On 30 September 1800 HMS Fisgard captured the Spanish naval brig Vivo, of fourteen 18-pounder carronades and with a crew of 100 men. She was two days out of Ferrol and carrying dispatches and orders to America. She threw the dispatches, etc., overboard during the chase.[lower-alpha 1] The Spanish brig "Vida", from Ferrol and prize to Fisgard, arrived at Plymouth on 9 October.[3] She was immediately laid up in ordinary. The British Royal Navy named and registered her, but never commissioned her.[1] The "Principal officers and commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered El Vroo for sale on 24 August 1801.[4] She sold on 7 September for £865 or £860.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Although the letter in the London Gazette announcing the capture referred to Vivo's armament as consisting of fourteen 18-pounder carronades,[2] other news accounts gave the armament as fourteen 8-pounder guns.

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Winfield (2008), p. 289.
  2. ↑ "No. 15301". The London Gazette. 11 October 1800. p. 1172.
  3. ↑ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4004. 14 October 1800. hdl:2027/uc1.c3049070.
  4. ↑ "No. 15396". The London Gazette. 11 August 1801. p. 991.

References

  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
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