Havana Royal Shipyard and the ship of the line Santísima Trinidad
Real Astillero de La Habana y el navío Santísima Trinidad
- Date
- 1724-1769 · confidence medium
- Place
- Havana Bay, Havana, Cuba
- Credited to
- Spanish Crown; shipbuilders such as Mateo Mullan
- Field
- Movement
What it is
The Havana royal shipyard, active from the 1720s and supplied with Cuban hardwoods such as mahogany, built dozens of ships of the line for the Spanish navy. It launched in 1769 the Santísima Trinidad, of 112 guns, the largest warship of her time.
The exact start of the royal shipyard is placed around 1724 by some authors and earlier (16th century) by others; the Trinidad was launched in 1769 with 112 guns and refitted with four decks around 1795. The peak period is given.
What it led to
- the 18th-century Spanish navy with ships built in Havana
- Cuba's mahogany and other hardwood timber industry
- later enlargement of the Trinidad to four decks, a flagship at Trafalgar (1805)