Description
The Diana was one of the six Mahonesas-class frigates built at the Mahón shipyard in Minorca, based on French and British construction techniques and improving upon them – She was the fastest ship of her class. It participated in the evacuation of the Spanish forces at the Siege of Roses during the French Revolutionary Wars. On 13 October 1796, she was captured after an action against HMS Terpsichore at the Strait of Gibraltar, nearby Cape Gata.
This ship pack can also be used to represent the Spanish Mahonesa class frigate “Proserpina 1797”.
