1798 naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars
Action of 15 July 1798
Part of the Mediterranean campaign during the War of the Second Coalition
Capture of the Dorothea, 15 July 1798, Thomas Whitcombe
Date
15 July 1798
Location
Off Cartagena, Mediterranean Sea
Result
British victory
Belligerents
Great Britain
Spain
Commanders and leaders
Manley Dixon
Felix O'Neil
Strength
1 ship of the line
4 frigates
Casualties and losses
2 wounded
52 killed and wounded 1 frigate captured
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Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808)
Atlantic
25 January 1797
Cape St. Vincent
26 April 1797
Cádiz
Santa Cruz
16 October 1799
7 April 1800
Ferrol
Cape Santa Maria
25 November 1804
7 December 1804
Cape Finisterre
Trafalgar
4 April 1808
Mediterranean
13 October 1796
19 December 1796
Menorca
15 July 1798
19 January 1799
6 February 1799
7 July 1799
10 December 1800
6 May 1801
Algeciras
1st
2nd
Americas
Newfoundland
Trinidad
San Juan
St. George's Caye
Puerto Cabello
Diamond Rock
Río de la Plata
1st Buenos Aires
Perdriel
2nd Buenos Aires
Maldonado
Cardal
Montevideo
Colonia del Sacramento
2 June 1807
San Pedro
Miserere
3rd Buenos Aires
23 August 1806
East Indies
Manila
Zamboanga
Macau
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Mediterranean campaign of 1798
1st Malta
27 June 1798
15 July 1798
Nile
18 August 1798
Menorca
2nd Malta
Ionian Islands
Nicopolis
Corfu
18 June 1799
Malta Convoy
31 March 1800
The action of 15 July 1798 was a minor naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought off the Spanish Mediterranean coast by the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Lion under Captain Manley Dixon and a squadron of four Spanish Navy frigates under Commodore Don Felix O'Neil. Lion was one of several ships sent into the Western Mediterranean by Vice-Admiral Earl St Vincent, commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet based at the Tagus in Portugal during the late spring of 1798. The Spanish squadron was a raiding force that had sailed from Cartagena in Murcia seven days earlier, and was intercepted while returning to its base after an unsuccessful cruise. Although together the Spanish vessels outweighed the British ship, individually they were weaker and Commodore O'Neil failed to ensure that his manoeuvres were co-ordinated. As a result, one of the frigates, Santa Dorotea, fell out of the line of battle and was attacked by Lion.
Despite ineffectual long-range gunfire towards the British ship by the remainder of the Spanish squadron, the isolated Santa Dorotea was rapidly forced to surrender, O'Neil eventually turning the other three frigates back towards Cartagena. Unopposed, Dixon was able to consolidate his prize and send it to St Vincent's fleet off Cadiz, where it was subsequently purchased into the Royal Navy. Lion remained in the Mediterranean during the year, later participating in the blockades of Malta and Alexandria. The Spanish, their seaports carefully guarded by Royal Navy squadrons, launched no further expeditions into the Mediterranean during the year.
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