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HMS Calpe (1800)
HMS ''Calpe'' was the former 14-gun polacca ''San José'' of the Spanish Navy, originally built in 1796 in Greece. The British captured her in 1800 and commissioned her as a sloop-of-war. She served at the Battle of Algeciras Bay before the Navy sold her in 1802.
==Capture==
On 25 October 1800 the frigate chased a Spanish polacca to an anchorage under a battery of five heavy guns at Fuengirola, where she joined a French privateer brig. The following night the brig escaped while the polacca tried twice, unsuccessfully, to escape to Malaga. On the night of the 27 October, Francis Beaufort, inventor of the Beaufort Wind-Scale, led ''Phaeton's'' boats on a cutting out expedition. Unfortunately the launch, with a carronade, was unable to keep up and was still out of range when a French privateer schooner, which had come into the anchorage unseen, fired on the other boats. The barge and two cutters immediately made straight for the polacca. The boarding party suffered one man killed and three wounded, including Beaufort who received, but survived, 19 wounds.〔In November 1801 the Navy awarded Beaufort a pension of £45 12s. 6d. per annum for his wounds.〕 The boarding party succeeded in securing the polacca by 5 am. The captured ship was the ''San José'', alias ''Aglies'', of 14 guns. She had been employed as a packet, carrying provisions between Malaga and Velilla. She had a crew of 34 seamen and there were also 22 soldiers on board. The Spanish sustained at least 13 wounded. The British immediately commissioned ''San José'' as a British sloop-of-war under the name of ''Calpe'', the ancient name of Gibraltar. Although it would have been usual to promote Beaufort, the successful and heroic leader of the expedition, to command ''Calpe'', Lord Keith chose Commander George Dundas instead, who not only was not present at the battle, but was junior to Beaufort.〔James (1837) Vol. 3, 55.〕
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