HMS Florentina (1800)

History
Spain
Name	Santa Florentina
Builder	Cartagena, Spain
Laid down	3 January 1786
Launched	21 December 1786
Captured	6 April 1800
Great Britain
Name	HMS Florentina
Acquired	By capture 1800
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal (NGSM) with clasp "Egypt"[1]
Fate	Sold 1803
General characteristics [2]
Tons burthen	90178⁄94 (bm)
Length	146 ft 8 in (44.7 m) (overall); 119 ft 6 in (36.4 m) (keel)
Beam	37 ft 8 in (11.5 m)
Depth of hold	10 ft 6 in (3.2 m)
Complement	At capture: 114 British service: 260
Armament	Spanish service Upperdeck: 26 × 12-pounder guns QD: 6 × 4-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 4-pounder guns British service Upperdeck: 26 × 12-pounder guns QD: 6 × 6-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Florentina (or sometimes Florentia or Florentine), was the Spanish frigate Santa Florentina, built in 1786 at Cartagena, Spain to a design completed on 17 October 1785 by José Romero Fernández de Landa, modified from his earlier design for the Santa Casilda. The British Royal Navy captured her on 6 April 1800 and took her into service as HMS Florentina. She served in the Mediterranean until she returned to Britain in 1802 after the Treaty of Amiens. There the Admiralty had her laid-up in ordinary and she was sold in 1803.