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The Santísima Trinidad (officially Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad) was a Spanish ship with 120 guns initially, later expanded to 140. The initial artillery complement after the reform of 1803 was 136 pieces, increased to 140 shortly before the Battle of Trafalgar with the shipment of four four-pounder howitzers. This left its artillery complement at 32 pieces of 36-pounders, 34 of 24-pounders, 36 of 12-pounders, 12 of 8-pounders, 16 howitzers of 24-pounders, 4 of 4-pounders and 6 grinders. It was the largest and most armed ship of its time and the only ship in the world with four decks.note 1
It was the largest ship of its time, which is why it received the nickname El Escorial of the seas, and it was one of the few four-decker ships of the line that existed., orange sunset,
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