Malaga
port - Italian training ship "Amerigo Vespucci" and full sized replica
of "Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad" (1769)
which
now functions as a disco-bar.
The
original "Santisima Trinidad" was in its day the biggest warship in the
world and nicknamed "El Ponderosa" due to its poor sailing with so many
guns high above the waterline. She first saw action when engaged by the
British ship "Captain", commanded by one Commodore Nelson at the
battle of Cape St Vincent, where she was badly damaged and surrendered
but was not captured. Nelson remade the aquaintance at the battle of Trafalgar,
where the Santasima Trinidad again surrendered after being badly damaged
and sank in a later storm.