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HBMS Crown (1782)

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Crown, 64 Guns

Crew Complement
Date	Men	Notes	Source
1779	500	Design Complement

Flag Officers
Date From	Date to	Rank/Position	Name	Source
1788/10	1790/11	Commodore	William Cornwallis	B057
Commanders
Date From	Date to	Rank/Position	Name	Source
1782/03	1784/04	Captain	Samuel Reeve	B057
1784/04	1786	Captain	Samuel Reeve	B057
1786/09	1788/10	Captain	Charles Morice Pole	B057
1788/10	1790/11	Captain	James Cornwallis	B057
1790/11	1792/02	Captain	Maurice Delgarno	B057
1792/02	1792/06	Captain	Lawrence William Halstead	B057
1798/06	1801/09	Lieutenant	John Baker	B057
1801/09	1802	Lieutenant	Benjamin Leigh	B057
1806/06	1806/12	Lieutenant	John Smith	B057
1807	1811	Lieutenant	James Rose	B057
1812	1814	Lieutenant	William Wickham	B057
Petty Officers
Date From	Date to	Rank/Position	Name	Source
1789	1790/10/25	Midshipman	Charles Wollaston	B080
1789/01/01	1792/06/05	Midshipman	John Pilfold	NAO
1789/01/18	1791/11/08	Midshipman	Sir Richard King	NAO
Crew
Date From	Date to	Rank/Position	Name	Source
1788/10/15	1788/12/31	Able Seaman	John Pilfold	NAO
1790/05	1792	1st Class Volunteer	Charles Philip Butler Bateman	B080

Service Record
Date	Notes	Source
1782/03/15	Completed at Blackwall at a cost of £25,361.19.19d ,to build	B057
1782/03/17	Began coppering and fitting at Woolwich DY	B057
1782/05/18	Completed coppering and fitting at a cost of £12,509.19.4d	B057
1782/07	In the Bay of Biscay	B057
1782/09/11	Sailed to cruise of Lisbon	B057
1782/10/20	Present at the Battle of Cape Spartel
1784/04	Paid off and then recommissioned as a guardship at Plymouth	B057
1784/04	Paid off and then recommissioned	B057
1784/04	refitting at Unknown at a cost of £2,808.0.0d ,as a guard ship	B057
1786	Paid off	B057
1786/05	Began coppering at Plymouth	B057
1786/09	Recommissioned as a guard ship	B057
1787/06	Completed coppering at a cost of £3,469.0.0d ,re-bolting	B057
1788/10	Began fitting at Chatham DY	B057
1788/10	Paid off	B057
1788/11	Completed fitting at a cost of £2,742.0.0d ,for foreign service	B057
1789/02/11	Sailed for the East Indies	B057
1792/06	Paid off	B057
1798/05	fitting at Portsmouth DY at a cost of £4,030.0.0d ,as a prison ship	B057
1798/06	Re-classified as a Unrated Prison Ship of 0 guns
1802/04	Re-classified as a Unrated Powder Hulk of 0 guns
1806/06	Re-classified as a Unrated Prison Ship of 0 guns
1815	In ordinary	B057
1816/03	Broken up at Portsmouth	B057

Fleets
Fleet Title	Commander	Date From	Date To	Source
Fleet for the relief of Gibraltar 1782	Admiral of the Blue Lord Richard Howe, Viscount Howe	1782/09/00	1782/12/00

Actions & Battles
Date		Source
1782/10/20	Battle of Cape Spartel

Notes on Ship
No Notes Entered

Sources
Id	Link or Description	Author
B057	British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714 - 1792	Rif Winfield
B080	A Naval Biographical Dictionary 1849	O'Brien
NAO	The National Archive - Trafalgar Ancestors	Various

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