Vessel
Princesa Real
Princesa Real: 3 recorded visits to the Californias, 1790 to 1791, calling at Monterey, Nootka. Flag Spain. Every visit cited to its source.
- Flag
- Spain
- Recorded span
- 1790 to 1791
- Recorded visits
- 3
- Anchorages
- Monterey, Nootka
- Record status
- reviewed
Recorded visits
Manuel Quimper's Princesa Real (the captured British sloop Princess Royal — NOT the frigate Princesa) touched Monterey Sept 1790 returning from the first detailed Spanish survey of the Strait of Juan de Fuca; reached San Blas 13 Nov 1790
- Published primary source: Henry R. Wagner, Spanish Explorations in the Strait of Juan de Fuca (Fine Arts Press, 1933)
- Published primary source: Navarrete, intro. to Relación... Sutil y Mexicana (Madrid, 1802)
- Published secondary source: Bancroft, History of California I:445
Sources disagree: Bancroft loosely calls it "Princesa"; the vessel was the Princesa Real (ex-Princess Royal), a different ship
Reports (per two letters of 3 Oct) the arrival of the balandra *Princesa Real* + paquebot *San Carlos* — ⚠ *possibly the [flag: ex-British 'Princess Royal', captured at Nootka 1789, Spanish-operated 1790]
Asks to keep mason Salvador Rivera off the *Aránzazu* (which continues its voyage once a replacement comes); embark the
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