Philemon Pownoll (c. 1734 – 15 June 1780) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years’…
Rainier was born in England, the grandson of Daniel Regnier, a Huguenot refugee, and the son of Peter Rainier of Sandwich.==Naval career==Rainier enlisted in the Royal Navy in…
Admiral Mark Robinson (25 April 1722 – 23 November 1799) was an officer of the Royal Navy, one of several members of the Robinson family to serve at…
Martin Waghorn (died 17 December 1787) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served during the Seven Years’ War and the American War of Independence, but is…
Admiral Sir Philip Charles Calderwood Henderson Durham, GCB (29 July 1763 – 2 April 1845) was a Royal Navy officer whose service in the American War of Independence,…
He entered the navy in 1778, during the American Revolutionary War, on the books of the {HMS|Sibyl|1779|2}, commanded by his uncle, Captain Pasley. With Pasley he afterwards served…
Philip Affleck (1726–1799) was an admiral in the Royal Navy. He was the younger brother of Sir Edmund Affleck. Affleck held various commands throughout the latter half of…
Peter Aplin (1753 – 17 April 1817) was an English admiral. He was midshipman of the {HMS|Roebuck|1774|2} on 9 October 1776, when her first lieutenant was killed in…
Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot (1711 – 31 January 1794) was a British admiral, who commanded the Royal Navy’s North American station during the American War for Independence.==Early life==A native…