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Action of 1 May 1781
The Action of 1 May 1781 was a minor naval engagement nearly 210 miles off the Port of Brest in which , a 74-gun third rate of the Royal Navy under Captain George Collier chased, intercepted and captured the 40-gun Spanish frigate ''Santa Leocadia'', captained by Don Francisco de Wenthuisen.〔Allen pp. 313–314〕
==Battle==
On 30 April, the 74-gun ship HMS ''Canada'', Captain Sir George Collier, having been detached by Vice-Admiral George Darby, commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet, to watch the port of Brest, discovered a squadron of small ships. The squadron dispersed on her approach, upon which ''Canada'' chased the largest, the ''Santa Leocadia''. After a pursuit of , the ''Canada'' overtook the ''Santa Leocadia'' on the morning of 1 May.
After a running fight, which lasted up to an hour and a half, and in heavy seas which prevented the ''Canada'' from opening her lower deck ports, the frigate surrendered. She had suffered heavy casualties, with 80 men killed and 106 wounded (nearly half her complement), including her captain, Don Francisco de Wenthuisen, who lost an arm.〔 The ''Canada'' had one of the trunnions of a lower deck gun shot off and suffered ten casualties.
What was remarkable about ''Santa Leocadia'' is that she was noted before the battle as being a remarkably fast-sailing ship. The discovery that she was coppered when she was captured came in some ways as a surprise. It was now known to the British Admiralty that other navies had decided to copper their ships as well as the Royal Navy. The ''Santa Leocadia'' was the first in the Spanish service that was coppered, and she was added to the British navy under the same name.〔Allen p. 314〕
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