HMS Santa Monica

HMS Santa Monica was a Spanish frigate which battled the British HMS Pearl (1762) in 1778, off the Azores. It was built in 1777 in Cartagena, Spain and launched as Santa Ammonica. It taken as a prize in the 1778 battle, commissioned into the Royal Navy and renamed in 1779, but a few years later was grounded off Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, and was broken up. Its wreck was later found in what is now the territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The shipwreck has been found, in the general area of Coral Bay, off Saint Thomas in what is now the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was listed on he National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Its specific location is not disclosed.

There was a mutiny aboard the ship on 16 July 1781. It was grounded off Tortola on 1 April 1782.