HMS Hermione, Muster 7 April 1797 to 7 July 1797

By John G. M. Sharp

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On the evening of 21 September 1797, at 11 P.M., half dozen angry members of frigate HMS Hermione crew, their courage fueled on a stolen bucket of rum, rushed to Captain Hugh Pigot's cabin, smashed the door, and forced their way in.1

1. Pope, Dudley, The Black Ship (Henry Holt, New York, 1998), p. 156.


Captain Hugh Pigot, 1802 2

After overpowering the marine guards stationed outside, they hacked at Captain Pigot with cutlasses or tomahawks and one man with a musket and bayonet before throwing him overboard.3, 4 Two of the mutineers, American, Able Seaman John Farrel of New York (634) and Bosun's Mate Thomas Nash of Waterford, Ireland (179) took significant leadership roles during the mutiny.5 The mutineers then proceed to murder nine other officers.

2. Confession of Joseph Montell, March 1798, ADM 1/248, p.16.

3. Pope, p. 157.

4. Hannibal in Port Royal Harbour Jamaica on Thursday the 15 August 1799 for the Trial of Thomas Nash one of the Mutineers of His Majesty's late Ship Hermione (Court Martial James Irwin (Irvin), John Holford, Senior, John Holford, Jr. – PRO ADM 1/5344 May 23, 1798 British National Archives.

5. Convertitio, Coriann, 2011, The Health of British Seamen in the West Indies, 1770 -1806, PHD thesis University of Exeter https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/3918/ConvertitoC.pdf?sequence=3

Dudley Pope has pointed out that captain Pigot, while in command of HMS Success, the frequency of flogging and its erratic nature showed a "complete lack of balance". Pope noted, for example, on 11 April 1795 Julian Valier, a seaman on HMS Success, was given twenty-four lashes for mutiny, one of the worst offenses in the Royal Navy apart from murder or treason, yet three sailors Alex Black, Edward Porter and William Wall on 15 April 1795, that same month, were given twenty four lashes for drunkenness, one of the most common infractions.6

6. Pope, pp.66, 343.


HMS Success deck log, 11 April 1795


HMS Hermione 1799

The HMS Hermione was recommissioned, as a fifth-rate frigate, under Captain John Hills, in December 1792. She sailed from Chatham Dockyard to Jamaica on 10 March 1793. The Hermione served in the West Indies during the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars. On 4 June 1794, under John Hills, the ship participated in the British attack on Port-au-Prince, where she led a small squadron that accompanied troop transports. Hermione had five men killed and six wounded in the attack. The British captured both the port and its defenses, and in doing so captured a large number of merchant vessels. Throughout her years in the Caribbean, the crew of the Hermione suffered repeated outbreaks of Yellow Fever and Malaria.

Death from disease, and not as a direct result of combat with the enemy, was in fact one of the navy’s biggest adversaries. Life on board a sailing ship was grueling and unhealthy. Ships teemed with refuse, rotting provisions, rats, insects, dirt and unclean drinking water. It is not surprising that these conditions resulted in diseases becoming widespread. Provisions for seamen to clean themselves and launder their belongings were not supplied by the navy, meaning the men usually slept in filthy hammocks and wore the same dirty clothing for months at a time.7

7. Convertitio, Coriann, 2011, The Health of British Seamen in the West Indies, 1770 -1806, PHD thesis University of Exeter https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/3918/ConvertitoC.pdf?sequence=3

The muster log of the HMS Hermione confirms the crew, as scholar Niklas Frykman has written, lived with the daily fear of – and in close proximity to death – through disease. Out of a shipboard population that usually hovered at just below 180, the death toll climbed to 134 men on the Hermione sailors died between December 1792 and July 1797, on average one man every ten days or so.8 During the course of 1794 most British forces were killed by Yellow Fever. Crew member David O’Brian Casey later wrote,

“In the Hermione alone,” we lost in three or four monthsw nearly half our crew, many from apparent good health, dying in a few days.9

8. Frykman, Niklas, The Bloody Flag, Mutiny in the Age of the Atlantic Revolution (University of California Press, Oakland, 2020), p. 168.

9 Ekirch, A. Rodger, American Sanctuary, Mutiny, Martyrdom and National Identity in an Age of Revolution (Vintage Books, New York, 2017), p. 9.

In the summer of 1794 the mortality rate for fever cases at the Port Royal Naval Hospital increased to 41%.10 Likewise later in the year, the registers of the Mole Naval Hospital, recorded the percentage of fatal cases caused by "fever" and the percentage of "fever" cases resulting in death rose to exceptional levels in the last quarter of the year, respectively seventy-three per cent and fifty-six per cent, excluding "intermittent" fevers.11 On 24 August 1794, Captain John Hills (1), the Hermione’s commanding officer, died from Yellow Fever at Port-au-Prince Hospital.12

10. Yellow Fever in the 1790’s The British Army in occupied Saint Dominque, David Greggus, Medical History, 1979,
23: 38-58, pp.40, n. 11 and 46. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/89199FC7FE981F69B1C7D132CE170DBB/S0025727300051012a.pdf/
yellow_fever_in_the_1790s_the_british_army_in_occupied_saint_domingue.pdf

11. Frykman, Niklas, The Bloody Flag, Mutiny in the Age of the Atlantic Revolution (University of California Press, Oakland, 2020), p. 168.

12. The Gentleman's Magazine (1850), Vol. 188, p. 662.



HMS Hermione, muster 7 April 1797 to 7 July 1797,
“Widows Men”, number 12 -15

Widow's man was a fictitious seaman kept on the books of Royal Navy ships during the 18th and early 19th centuries so that their pay and rations could be redistributed to the families of dead crew members. This financial arrangement helped keep widows from being left destitute following the death of their seafaring husbands. The number of widows' men on a Royal Navy ship was proportional to the ship's size. A first-rate might have as many as eighteen, while a fifth-rate, like the Hermione, might have only three or four. The existence of widows' men served as an incentive for men to join the Royal Navy, rather than the Merchant Navy, as they knew that their wives would be provided for if they died.13

13. On the HMS Hermione muster (numbers 12 -15) and that of many other ships, were "widows’ men". A widow’s man was a fictitious seaman, entered on the muster whose wages would be set aside to be used to make payment to the families of dead crew members. See “The Purpose and Content of Musters” Captain Cook Society, https://www.captaincooksociety.com/cooks-life/cooks-ships/the-ships-cook-sailed-in/the-purpose-and-content-of-musters

The last surviving muster book, July 1797, reflects the Hermione had a diverse crew, with about half of the crew born in England and a fifth in Ireland. The remaining sailors were from Germany, Norway, America, Canada, Denmark and Portugal. Two of the men David Black, no. 159 and William Lewis no. 252, were of African descent. At least twenty of these seamen were Americans, "among them mariners from Charleston, Norfolk, Philadelphia, New York and Nantucket.” Of the twenty Americans aboard the Hermione a slight majority appear to have received bonuses for "enlisting" with a distinct likelihood that the remainder had been pressed."


HMS Hermione muster 1797, p.26, Captain Hugh Pigot no.615
John Farrel, American, no. 634, was a leader of the mutiny

As he had when in command of the HMS Success, Captain Hugh Pigot (no. 615) on assuming command of the Hermione on 6 February 1797 continued to impress seamen. Many of these sailors’ were "pressed" or forcibly conscripted seamen from merchant vessels doing business in the Caribbean. For example, six Americans were impressed on 4 July 1797 from the American merchant ship Two Brothers. This impressment action and others like it led to a diplomatic incident and the intervention of the American Consul, Silas Talbot. The impressed men were eventually released.14

14. Frykman, Niklas, The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution (University of California Press, Oakland, 2020), pp. 170, 248, n.13.

Regulations required the purser of each ship's company to list and from 1764 give the name of the sailor, age on boarding, place of birth, and whether pressed into service. They were also to notate  ‘D' signifying Discharge which could include transfer to another ship, 'R' signifying Desertion (Run) and 'D.D.' Discharged Dead.

Warrant officers on board, HMS Hermione included the Sailing Master, William Turner (396), Purser Stephen Turner Pacey (no. 553) and the Surgeon (no. 594) Hugh T. Sansom. Each had a warrant from the Navy Board but not an actual commission from the Crown. Warrant officers had rights to mess and berth in the wardroom and were normally considered gentlemen; however, the Sailing Master was often a former sailor who had "come through the ranks", therefore might have been viewed as a social unequal. All commissioned and warrant officers wore a type of uniform, although official Navy regulations clarified an officer uniform in 1787, while it was not until 1807 that masters, along with pursers, received their own regulated uniform.15

15. Blake, Nicholas; Lawrence, Richard Books, The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy, (Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, 2005) p. 71.

The Purser: Stephen Turner Pacey was in charge of the purchase of supplies such as food and drink, clothing, bedding, hammocks and candles. Pacey would usually charge the supplier a 5% commission for making a purchase and charged a considerable markup when they resold the goods to the crew. While the purser was not in charge of pay, he had to track it closely since the crew had to pay for all their supplies, and it was the purser's job to deduct those expenses from their wages. The purser bought everything (except food and drink) on credit, acting as an unofficial private merchant. In addition to his official responsibilities, it was customary for the purser to act as an official private merchant for luxuries such as tobacco and to be the crew's banker. Pursers were notorious for giving short measure for victuals, clothing and on the money they made from the sale of tobacco.  After a burial, the ship’s purser would record the dead man’s clothes and possessions. Typically these items were sold at auction to members of the crew with the proceeds going to deceased next of kin.

The Surgeon: Hugh Sansom’s duties included responsibility and oversight of the surgeon’s mate Lawrence Cronin (597), visiting patients at least twice a day, and keeping accurate records on each patient admitted to his care. As surgeon, Sansom would take morning sick call at the mainmast, assisted by his mates, as well as tending to injured sailors during the day. During sea battles, the surgeon worked in the cockpit, a space permanently partitioned off near a hatchway down which the wounded could be carried for treatment. The deck was strewn with sand prior to battle to prevent the surgeon from slipping in the blood that accumulated. In addition to caring for the sick and wounded, surgeons were responsible for regulating sanitary conditions on the ship.

Surgeon Sansom and his mates also oversaw the regular fumigation of  the Hermione sick bay and sometimes whole decks by burning brimstone (sulfur), and maintained the ventilating machines that supplied fresh air to the lower decks to keep them dry.

Historians and medical researchers now recognize, that despite the best efforts, yellow fever and malaria were two of the unintended consequences of large scale sugar production in Jamaica and Haiti plantations. In these tropical locations, sugarcane was cultivated by a large enslaved population. The Caribbean had a plentiful supply of water for a continuous period of more than six to seven months each year, either from natural rainfall or through irrigation. These same conditions are also the perfect incubator for mosquitos. The mosquitos are vectors for both malaria and yellow fever. Both diseases were widespread in the tropical and subtropical areas that existed in a broad band around the equator and particularly in Cuba. The yellow fever virus is mainly transmitted through the bite of the mosquito, Aedes aegypti, but other mostly Aedes mosquitoes such as the tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, can also serve as a vector for this virus. In epidemiology, a disease vector is any agent which carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism. Yellow fever typically brings on high fever, muscle pain, headaches and nausea. In unfortunate cases, these symptoms are joined by jaundice, internal hemorrhaging with blood oozing through the nose and ears, delirium and vomit of partially coagulated blood with the color and constancy of coffee grinds, hence its Spanish name "vomito negro" or black vomit. This last stage is usually followed by multiple organ failure and death. Sailors often referred to yellow fever as "yellow jack" for the yellow pendant or flag ships and vessels flew as a warning to others of the presence of the disease.*As historian J. R. McNeil in his magisterial Mosquito Empire Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914, reminds us that it was not for nothing that yellow fever goes by the French Name "mal des matelots" (sailors disease) in the West Indies. Thus vessels like HMS Success and HMS Hermione unwittingly became super vectors with mosquito larvae hatching in the wet and damp spaces below deck.** Most of the Hermione crew down with yellow fever or malaria who departed the ship in Jamaica for Port Royal Naval Hospital or the Mole Naval Hospital, rarely returned. The 1797 Hermione muster below notated in all 127 men and boys as D.D. Departed Dead. The 1797 muster provides enumerates at least 90 men who died in hospital. Among the deaths on board,, falling overboard, accidental falls, bursting cannon and enemy action are listed as cause.

* J.R. McNeil "Mosquito Empire: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010), 33-34 and Timothy C. Winegard "The Mosquito: A Human History of our Deadliest Predator" (Dutton: New York 2019), 26.

** McNeil, 51.

Enlisted ratings most often found in this muster are: Landsmen abbreviated to ‘LM’, Ordinary Seaman abbreviated to ‘ord’ or ‘ordy’ and Able-Bodied Seaman abbreviated to ‘ab’ or ‘AM’ or ‘able’.

Duties of Enlisted Ratings:
Able Seaman, also Able-bodied seaman, was often abbreviated A.B. or ab. On British naval vessels an Able Seaman was typically considered the best seafarers with years of experience at sea and considered "well acquainted with his duty". The rating of A.B., is often found on ship's muster and payrolls: these two letters are frequently used as an epithet for the person so rated. He must be equal to all the duties required of a seaman in a ship--not only as regards the saying to "hand, reef, and steer," but also to strop a block, splice, knot, turn in rigging, raise a mouse on the main-stay, and be an example to the ordinary seamen and landsmen. Many former merchant sailors were rated as Ordinary Seaman, O.S., since they often lacked the requisite experience aboard a ship of war to rate A.B.

Ordinary Seaman abbreviated “O.S." ord, or ordy. Ordinary Seaman in the British Navy ranked above Landsman and below Able Seaman. An Ordinary Seaman who gained sufficient experience at sea and "knew the ropes", that is, knew the name and use of every line in the ship’s rigging, could be promoted to A.B. An Ordinary Seaman’s duties aboard the HMS Hermione included “handling and splicing lines, and working aloft on the lower mast stages and yards.

Landsman abbreviated "LM." Landsman was the rating given to new recruits, novices with little or no experience at sea. Landsmen performed menial, unskilled work aboard ship. A Landsman who gained sufficient experience could be promoted to Ordinary Seaman.

HMS Hermione, muster 1797


Bounty Pd
No
Pressed or not
Place of Birth
Age
Name
D, D.D. or R
Rate
p. 1
1
Commissioned
John Hills
D 24 August 1794, [Captain John Hills died from Yellow Fever at Port-au-Prince Hospital.]
Captain
Chatham
William Cazer Bray
R., 2 December 92, Regiment
His Servant
Frank Haile
R., 9 January 92, Regt.
His Servant
Thomas Morton
R., 9 January 92, Regt.
His Servant
5
Wm. Summers Dadd
R., 9 January 92, Regt.
His Servant
William Hand
R., 30 January 92, Regt.
His Servant
Thomas Lecroft
R., 30 January 92, Regt.
John Cole
R., 16 December 92, Regt.
John Watter
R., 28 December 92, Regt.
10
Per commission
James Bruce
D 14 January 94, Mole Hospital
1st Lt
Chatham
John Taylor
D 13 January 93
His Servant
Widows Man 1.
AB
Widows Man 2.
AB
Widows Man 3.
30 Apr 93, per Admiralty order
AB
15
Widows Man 4.
30 Apr 93, per Admiralty order
AB
Order Book
John Bruce
D., 30 April 93
Boatswain
Chatham
Wm. Ulph
D. 19 December 92 Exchanged Belle Poule
His Servant
John Bruce
D. 19 December 92 Exchanged Belle Poule
Order Book
Thomas Dawkins
D. 17 December 92 Exchanged Belle Poule
AB
End p. 1
20
Chatham
William Gill
D. 17 December 92 Exchanged Belle Poule
His Servant
p. 2
Wm Lewis
D., 12 May 96
Gunner to HMS Leviathan
Chatham
Wm Lewis
D. 30 Jan 93
His son
St. John’s, America
16
John Barnett
D. 19 Oct. 94, by Admiralty order
Book
Piclock
D. 19 Oct. 92 Exchanged Quarters
Carpenter
25
Chatham
John Buller
D. 19 Oct. 92 Exchanged Quarters
Chatham
John Taylor
D. 19 Oct. 92 Exchanged Quarters
35
Wm Moncrief
Cook
Chatham
16
James Williams
D. 19 Sept.94, Request
Volunteer
London
22
Thomas Colwell
R. 27 March 92, Chatham
AB
£ 2.
30
Cork
37
Patrick Seamol
D.D. 30 Oct. 93 Cape Mole
Ord.
£ 2.
Shoad Kent
21
Geo. Dopson
R., 1 Aug. 93 Point Royal
Ord.
John Davids
D., 7 Oct. 96
Hospital
Chatham
John Phillips
D., 23 Oct. 92
Regiment
 
Devon
20
Charles Hills
R., 17 July 94, Port-au-Prince
35
Devon
21
C. T. Mainwaring
D.D. 10 Sept. 92, Port-au-Prince Hospital
Edinburgh
32
Thomas Finlay
D., 6 May 94, Promotion
Clerk
£ 2.
Chatham
20
Thomas Roberts
D.D. 22 Aug., 94 Port-au-Prince Hospital
Ord
£ 1.
Winford
23
John Kenney
D. , 3 Feb with Capt
LM
£ 3.
Dublin
30
Henry Stanhope
D., 14 Oct. 94, for Mole Hospital
M
£3 End p 2
40
New Haven
39
John Pollard
D., 20 Nov. 94
M
p. 3
Chatham Volunteer
Liverpool
26
Robert Bellamy
R. 29 June 92
AB
£ 2.
Madras
25
Thomas Deceres
D., Sheerness 25 Feb. 93
Sandwich
22
Robert Matson
D., Britannia 27 Jan. 93 per Admiralty order
£ 3.
Belfast
39
James Fritzpatrick
R., 14 Jan 93
AB
45
Leith
26
Fredrick Good
R. 1 Aug 93, Chatham
AB
James Fea
D. 94 Superseded
Chatham
17
John Smith
D. 30 Dec. 92, Regt.
£ 3.
Dartmouth
44
Peter Clark
D. 23 Nov 94, Port-au-Prince Hospital
AB
£ 3.
London
George Hoskins
D. 25 July 93, Sheerness
AB
£ 3.
50
Swansea, Wales
23
Thomas Jones
D.D., 23 Aug 95
AB
£ 3.
Sunderland
30
John Wilson
D.D., 9 Dec 93
AB
£ 3.
Sandwich
23
William Woodruff
D.D., 26 July 94 Mole Hospital
AB
Sunderland
30
Isaac Stacy
R., Chatham, 20 July 92
AB
Belfast
20
Michael Connor
R., Chatham 20 July 92
AB
55
London
22
Thomas Irwin
D. 15 Jan 93
AB
£ 3.
Berwick
29
Rodger Colson
D.D., sent to Port au Prince Hosp 11-5-94, d 7 -5-95
AB
Chesterton
21
John Day
R., 26 Dec. 93
AB
£ 2.
Tumbridge Wells
26
Thomas Worger
R., 6 Aug. 93
AB
£ 2.
Charlton
25
William Reynolds
D.D., 28 July 94
AB
End p. 3
60
Cork
23
Thomas Dole
R., 3 Jan 93
AB
£ 1.p. 4
Chatham
20
J. R. Barnsley
LM
Volunteer
Chatham
Thomas Dawsitt
D., HMS Argonaut 20 July 1796
Carpenter
Chatham
Hall
D.D., 6 Aug 94 Port au Prince Hospital
Chatham
John Reeves
D.D., 30 Jan 93
£ 2.
65
Carmarthen, Wales
22
John Evans
£ 3.
Daerer
Nathaniel Belcher
2 Oct. 94 Port au Prince Hospital
LM
£ 1.
Redriff
20
John Britcher
D.D., 2 Oct 1793 died 4 Aug 1794 Port au Prince
LM
£ 1.
London
21
Robert Sheppard
D.D., 2 July 95, At Sea
LM
£ 2.
Beromondsey
23
Lee Young
D.D., 2 Feb 95, At Sea
ORD
£ 1.
70
London
22
William Bullman
D.D., 21 June 94
LM
£ 1.
London
21
Nathaniel English
D.D., 9 September 94
LM
Com 3 Dev
Thomas Gott
D., 24-4-94. Into the Raisonable being superseded
3rd Lt
Chatham
16
Thomas Gainott
D.D., 16 August 94, Port au Prince Hospital
£ 3.
Volunteer Deal
32
Thomas Bowles
Unserviceable, 31 July 93. D., 3 September 93
AB
£ 3.
75
Portsmouth
John Williams
D.D., 13 September 94, Port au Prince Hospital
AB
Cornwall
30
Arthur Fond
R. 20 December 92, Chatham
AB
£ 2.
London
21
William Lock
R. 10 April Cove of Cork
AB
Aberdeen, Scotland
40
John Jonson
R. 9 Jan. 93, Chatham
AB
London
22
John Morgan
R. 3 Jan 93, Chatham
AB
£3 End p 4
80
Bromley, Kent
Samuel Pratt
R., 29 July Port Royal, Jamaica
AB
£ 3. p. 5
Chatham, Gosport
33
John Young
R., 6 August 93, Port Royal
£ 2.
Volunteer Chart
23
Edward Crauch
D.D., 24-7-94, Death, 12-8-94 Port au Prince Hosp
ORD
Northampton
21
Thomas Petit
R, 6 August 93, Port Royal
LM
Limehouse
22
Henry Decon
R.19 April 93, Port Royal
LM
£ 1.
85
Woolich
22
George Latouch
D., 26 March 93, Sick Quarters
LM
Dublin
32
Walter Barnes
R., 2 January 93, Chatham
AB
£ 3.
Drogheda
40
Thomas Collins
Cove of Cork, 20 March 1793
AB
Killkenney
22
Gracestock
R., 3 January 93, Chatham
AB
£ 3.
Passham
36
Michael Dempsey
D., 23 March 1794
AB
£ 3.
90
Carnarvon, Wales
22
Richard Reece
AB
£ 3.
Perth
46
James Robertson
D.D., 12 July 1795, at Sea
AB
£ 3.
Bishop Staff Herefordshire
30
James McLean
D.D., 22 September 94, St. Mark
£ 1.
Active in Mutiny
Canterbury
21
William Anderson
LM
£ 3.
Leith , Scotland
20
Clark
R. 1 August 93, Port Royal
£ 3.
95
Nat. Boston
20
Michael Style
R. 7 March 94, Port Royal
AB
£ 3.
Rhode Island
29
J. Hamilton
D.D., 5-9-94 Port au Prince, Death, 7-10-94
AB
£ 3.
Glasgow
22
Josiah Lowdon
R.,3 Jan 93, Chatham
AB
£ 2.
Brompton
20
James Baker
D.D., 3 August 93 at Sea
ORD
Liverpool
26
John Anderson
R., 16 January 93 Chatham
AB
£2 End p 5
100
Dover
21
William Chitburn
D.D. Port au Prince 24-7-94, Death 18-9- 94
p. 6
Chatham, Volunteer
21
William Medforth
20 May 93, Sick Quarters, Cove of Cork
AB
Francis Bennet
D., 28 April 96, Iphigenia Exchange
Purser
Chatham
John Taylor
D., 23 Dec.92, Request
His servant
Vangeance
20
Daniel McDonald
R. 3 Jan. 93 Chatham
AB
105
Active in mutiny
William Brown
D., 28 October 92, Rochester
AB
John Stone
D., 23 November 94, Port au Prince
AB/Boat
Chatham
John Mills
D.D, 28 July 94, Port au Prince
His Servant
Plymouth
18
John Milton
D., 30 January 93, Request
Plymouth
22
John Bates
3 Jan 93, Request
AB
£ 2.
110
London
Robert Bailey
D.D., 5 October 94, Drown
Chatham
John Wells
19 October 94, orders per Admiralty
£ 3.
Volunteer
Chatham
20
Thomas Burton
D. 9 February 97 Success with Captain
AB
£ 1.
Captains crew
Cranbrook
24
Michael Whatman
LM
Captains crew
Chatham
19
Charles Seamain
D., 30 January 93
£ 3.
115
Fife
30
John Cormack
D.D., Port au Prince Hospital, Died., 11 April 95,
M
£ 3.
Falmouth
21
George Williams
D. 20 March, 93, for Quarters Cove of Cork in lieu
AB
Dover
24
Edward Dix
D., 27 May 95
Midshipman
£ 3.
Dover
24
Robert Pascall
CD.D., 11 April 93 Port Royal
AB
£ 2.
Dover
21
Robert Blanchard
D., 11 October 93 Unserviceable
£3 End p 6
120
Chatham
23
Abraham Mee
R., 1 August 93 Port Royal
AB
£ 2.
p. 7
Whitby
34
John Fletcher
ORD
£ 2.
Buckland
20
William G. Dodd
D. 9 July 97, to HMS Success with Captain
£ 1/10
Eltham Kent
22
Thomas Wicks
D.D., Port Royal, 22 Dec 94, Death 13 January 95
LM
£ 1/10
Chatham
John Moore
D.D., Port Royal, 29 May 95, Death 27 June 95
LM
£ 5.
125
Belfast
25
Thomas Hagg
D., Port Au Prince Hospital 22 August 1794
Chatham
John Gould
D., 24 August  94, Sick Quarters, Capt. Dead
16
John Grew
D., 24 August  94, Sick Quarters, Capt. Dead
AB
Volunteer
Banff, Scotland
24
William Smith
R.
AB
London
Samuel Black
D. 9 September 94, Request
130
Bristol
Edward Bynd
R., 23 February 93, Per order of Admiral Parker
Lewis Sufax
William Nash
AB
Guernsey
John Bentley
AB
Guernsey
David Turtle
Guernsey
Thomas Roberts
135
Sunderland
Peter Berwick
Chedington
Samuel Eastwood
£ 1/10
Guernsey
John Pointington
R. 9 April 93, Bristol from the Boat
AB
£ 2.
Norway
Andrew Pglestond
R. 9 April 93, Bristol from the Boat
ORD
£ 5.
Volunteer
Newington Butts
John Morgan
D., 9 July 97, to HMS Success with Captain.
End p. 7
140
Liverpool
John Lass
D. 22 March 1793 to [Royal Hospital]16 Haslar in Liu.
16. The Royal Hospital Haslar is in Gosport, Hampshire (1753-2007) which was also known as the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar. The hospital treated foreign nationals as well as British service personnel.
AB
£ 1.
p. 8
London
23
John Aukbury
D.D., 10 August 1794, Port au Prince Hospital
LM
£ 1.
S. Hampton
William Coldray
D.D., Mole Hospital, 10 March  94
LM
Per Commission
J. M. Spread
D. 19 September 94
2nd LT
Chatham
James Allen
D. 19 September 94
His Servant
£ 5.
145
Deal
42
Isaac Newton
D.D. 2 June 94 “Killed by the Bursting of a Gun.”
AB
£ 5.
23
John Cusp
R., Port Royal, 30 August 93
AB
£ 5.
34
John Tidder
£ 5.
22
John Bulk
£ 5.
22
William Harrison
D.D. 2 June 94 “Killed by the Bursting of a Gun.”
£ 5.
150
22
Thomas Griffith
D.D., 9 August 94, Sick Quarters, DOD 16/9/94
AB
£ 5.
27
Hugh Flannigan
D. 8 April 93, Cove of Cork
AB
John Oddy
D.D., 28 Oct. 93, At Sea.
AB
Whitby
20
Abraham Graves
R., 16 January 93, Sheerness
AB
£ 5.
Whitby
29
Thomas Biggs
D. 10 April 94, Mole Hospital
AB
155
Chatham
John Cole
30 January 93
A/B Coxswain
Chatham
John Thompson
D. 13 March 94, Mole Hospital
£ 5.
Volunteer
William Young
D., 21 July 95, Port Royal Hospital, Unserviceable
AB
£ 1/10
Samuel Harvey
D.D., 9 March 94 Mole Hospital
LM
£ 2/10
Africa
David Black
D. 24 February 9, Sheerness 1/3/93 Capt's crew
LM
End p. 8
160
Chatham
James Jones
D.30 Janaury 93,  Captains crew Request
£ 5.
p. 9
Volunteer, from HMS Nemesis
Bristol
26
Thomas Quintrell
D., 7-17-94, Mole Hosp, Discharged 23-6-94, Royal Hosp
AB
£1./10
Canterbury
23
William Adkins
D.D. 7 September 1793, Death  31 October 1793
LM
£ 1./10
Canterbury
20
John Adkins
D., Port au Prince  3-8-94, Discharged 23-11-94
LM
£5.
Newry
29
Henry Mc Gee
D.D., Port Royal Hosp 7-12-94, Death 15-12-94
AB
£5.
165
Lewes, Sussex
20
Thomas [?] Spence
D., 10 September 96, HMS Canada
AB
Leith
21
Thomas Smith
R., Port Royal, I August 93
Dundee
23
Thomas Chambers
R., Port Royal 21 June 96
AB
Foulds
23
Thomas Besler
R., 20 April 93 Cove of Cork
LM
Perth
James Fraser
R. 20 April 93 Cove of Cork
AB
170
Edinburgh
23
James Lockhart
D.D. 10 Dec 94, Port au Prince
AB
Edinburgh
25
George McGill
R. 16 September 94, Port au Prince
AB
Shrewsbury
21
John Jones
R. 16 September 94, Port au Prince
ORD
Shrewsbury
20
Walter Gordon
D.D., 17 September 93, at Sea
Midshipman
£1.
Margate
22
James  Fagg
D.D. Port au Prince  Death, 14 October 94
LM
£2.
175
Active in mutiny
Canterbury
21
James Blaxland
20 May 97, lent Ceres, returned 7 July 1797
ORD
£2.
London
29
George Hernian
D.D., Port au Prince, 5-8-94, Death 14-9- 94
ORD
£2.
London
23
Henry Thompson
R.1 May 93, Cove of Cork
ORD
£3
Cork
24
John Conly
R. 2 May 93, Cove of Cork
AB
£3.
179
A leader in Mutiny
Waterford
25
Thomas Nash
AB
£3.
End p. 9
180
Dublin
22
Michael  Maney
D.D. 31 March 97 at Sea.
AB
£3
p. 10
Donegal County
26
John Williams
D. 22-11, sick, 1794 Port au Prince, Unserviceable
AB
£ 1
Brockley Newry, Kent
20
James Pollard
LM
£3
Newnham, Gloucestershire
25
Richard Stone
D.D., 21 October 1793, Port Royal Hospital
AB
£3
185
New Romley
21
William Mortley
R, 31 August, 1793, Port Royal
AB
£3
Gothenburg
30
Henrik Hudquest
ORD/to AB 1 Jan 94
£3
Hanover
20
Hendrik Muller
D. 28 Dec 93, Unserviceable
AB
Northumberland
29
George Sample
AB to Masters mate
Wickin Cathey
23
George Wood
D.D., 22 April 1793, Drowned at Sea.
AB
190
Norfolk
32
Henry Green
D.D., Port Royal Hospital, 13 December 1793
AB Sailmakers crew
Kent
37
John Couchman
D.D. Sick, Port au Prince Hosp, died 20-9-1794
ORD
Fifeshire
20
Samuel Simes
ORD
Dover
20
Thomas Daines
D.D. 16 February 1794, at Sea.
ORD
20
William Saxby
D.D. 1 July 1794
ORD
195
20
Robert Sinclair
D.D. Fall from Foretop, Port au Prince, 6 -5-1795
ORD
Dover
20
Harry Hills
D. 26-8-1794, by order of Captain HMS Magnanime
Midshipman
Portsmouth
15
Thomas Bennet
D. 19 October 1794, by order
Pursers Servant
London
19
Charles Seamain
Boatswain Servant
David Forrester
D. 19 October 1794
Pursers Servant
End p 10
200
London
19
Peter Malcolm
D. 17 September 1794
Captain's Servant
£
p. 11
Dublin
20
Daniel McDonald
ORD
£
Volunteer
New Market, Suffolk
42
John Bouton
D.D. Port Royal Hospital, 12 October 1793
AB
£
Deal Rendezvous
34
Morris Hopkins
D. 10-1-1796, Port Royal Hospital, Unserviceable
AB/ 1 March 96 to Gunner
Deal Rendezvous
Daniel Simmons
205
Deal Rendezvous
22
William Brown
D.D. 27 August 1795
£
Deal Rendezvous
20
James Roberts
D. 28 December 93, Port Royal Hospital
£
Deal Volunteer
Ralph Hatton
D.D. 5 August 1794, Port Au Prince, Sick Quarters
ORD
Folkstone, Kent
William Wells
D.D. 4 August 1794, Port Au Prince, Sick Quarters
ORD
HMS Iphigenia , Volunteer
St. Giles, London
26
James Kinder
D.D. 19 July 1794, Mole Hospital
ORD
210
Millbank, Westminster
25
John Porter
D.D. 14 December 1794, Port Royal Hospital
ORD
Edward Vile
R
George Mills
R
Deal Rendezvous
Ireland
William Beatty
D. 5 December 1793
Surgeon’s Mate
Deal Rendezvous
Coldred
Ralph Austin
D.D. 12 November 1794 Port Au Prince Sick Quarters
LM
215
Staple, Kent
20
William Neane
D. 23-11-94, Port Au Prince Sick Qtrs Unserviceable
LM
Deal
14
Thomas Thompson
D. 23 August 1793, Request
Captain’s Servant
Antiqua
20
Peter James
R. Port Royal, 28 January 1795
ORD
Portsmouth
21
William Saxly
D. 30 April 1793, Request
1st Lieutenant
£ 2.10
Portsmouth Volunteer
West Indies
25
John Patrick
D. 23 June 1794, Mole Hospital Unserviceable
ORD
End p. 11
220
Portsmouth
William King
D. 24 August 1794, Captain Servant, dead
£ 5
p. 12
Dover Tender Volunteer
Dover
32
William Westfield
AB
£ 7
Leopard Volunteer
Newcastle
35
John Anderson
D.D. 3 July 1794, at sea
AB
£ 3.10
Leopard Volunteer
Oxford Street, London
23
Edward Coleman
D. 23-11-1794 Port au Prince, Sick List Unserviceable
ORD
£ 1.10
Volunteer
Lewis, Sussex
29
Charles Wheeler
LM to AB 1-1- 1794
225
Portsmouth
Lyman, Norfolk
20
William Morton
D. 24 August 1794, Captains Dead
Captain's servant
£ 7
Monarch Volunteer
30
John Willott
D. 21-7-1795 Port au Prince Hospital. Unserviceable
AB
£ 7
Monarch Volunteer
Fife Shire, Scotland
31
Andrew Todd
D.D. Mole Hospital death 23 September1794
AB 1793 to Carpenters crew
£ 6
Monarch Volunteer
Sandwich
23
James Shaw
AB
£ 5
Rendezvous
Waterford
23
Michael White
D.D. Mole Hospital, death 13 February 1794
AB
£ 5
230
Gaesbrough, Yorkshire
34
James Day
D. Port au Prince, Sick List Unserviceable
Cork
28
£ 5
Kinsale, Ireland
26
James Driscole
D.D. 7 November 1795 at Sea
AB
£ 5
City of Cork Tender
America
27
Stephen Wright
R. Cove of Cork, 29 April 1793
AB
£ 5
City of Cork Tender
Plymouth
26
AB 1-5-1793 to Masters Mate. 30-8-1794 to Port Au Prince Sick Qtrs
£ 5
235
City of Cork Tender
America
24
John Conway
R. Port au Prince Sick Quarters, 30 August 1794
AB 1-5-1793 to Masters Mate
£ 5
City of Cork Tender
West Indies
22
George Wilkinson
R. 31 August 1793 Port Royal
AB
Cove of Cork
Dublin
16
John Dunneven
D. 13 June 1793 Barbados
Captain's Servant
£ 1.10
Cove of Cork Volunteer
Cork
22
Richard Harris
D. 2 February 1795
LM/Acting Surgeon’s Mate 10-3-93. 2-2- 1795 into the Service on Preferment
£ 5
County Langford
27
James O’Farrell
AB 10 March 1793 Gunners mate then 21 Sept 94 to AB
£ 5
240
Rendezvous Kinsale
Cork
23
Richard Smith
R. 1 August 1793 Port Royal Hospital
AB
£ 5
p. 13
Rendezvous Kinsale, Volunteer
Falkirk, Scotland
24
John Adams
D. 27 May 1795 Port Royal Hospital, Unserviceable
AB
£ 5
Gordon, Fifeshire
48
Peter Sinclair
R. 29 August 1793 Port Royal
AB 4 May 1793 to Masters Mate
£ 5
Maryland, America
24
Robert Viccardo
D.D. 2 June 1794, killed by the burst of a gun
AB
£ 5
Cove of Cork, Volunteer
Shire Murray
20
Alexander Shaw
AB
£ 5
245
Tender Volunteer
Lancaster
23
Richard Horby
AB
£ 5
26
Charles Wilkinson
£ 5
27
Phillip Conner
D.D. Mole Hospital 25 December 1794
£ 5
20
Nathan Dawson
£ 5
22
Alex Tyler
£ 5
250
Southampton
22
Southampton
D.D. Port au Prince, Sick Quarters, 5 September 1794
AB
Swaning Wales
26
Richard Harris
R. 30 June 1795 Kingston, Jamaica
AB
£ 5
Senegal, Africa
29
William Lewis
AB
Chatham
21
William Meadforth
D.D. 16 June 1794 at Cape Tiburon Haiti
Boatswain’s Mate
David Roark
D.D. Port Royal Hospital 6 August 1795
1st Lieutenant
£ 5
255
London
22
Benjamin Edwards
R. Port Royal Hospital August 1795
ORD
£ 5
Volunteer
Devonshir
21
John Gill
D.D. 29 June 1794, Tiburon
ORD
Cork
20
James McCarthy
R. 30 June 1793 Kingston Jamaica
Cork
32
James Morris
R. 15 July 1793 Port Royal
AB
£ 5
20
Alexander Nillage
R. 22 October 1793, Port Royal Hospital
AB
260
Cork
32
James Morris
R. 15 July 1793, Port Royal Hospital
AB
£ 2.10
End of p 13
Younghall, Ireland
30
William Mahoney
ORD
£ 5
p. 14
Cove of Cork
Dublin
17
John Mc Lean
D. 17 May 1795 Request Return
Captain's Servant
£ 5
Sunderland
22
John Chambers
D.D.13 September 1794 Port au Royal Sick Quarters
AB
£ 5
265
Hampshire
26
Richard Downham
D.D. 27 September 1794 Port au Royal Sick Quarters
AB
£ 5
Barbados
19
John Williams
D. 29 July 1793 Request
£ 5
Port Royal Volunteer
Shetland
22
John Anderson
D.D. 16 September1794
AB
£2. 10
Port Royal Volunteer
Shetland
21
Gilbert Anderson
£2. 10
Port Royal Volunteer
Tunbridge
31
William Clark
ORD, then 7-6-94 AB
270
Port Royal Volunteer
Norway
35
Martin Nielson
AB
Port Royal Volunteer
Bristol
20
Edward Fry
R. September 1794
ORD
William Epworth
D. 22 July 1795 to Port Royal Hospital Unserviceable
18 September 1793
Newry
31
Lawrence Fitzpatrick
AB
24
John Williams
D. 24 August 1793, Request
ORD
280
Portsmouth
14
John Dilley
D. 24 August 1793, Request
£2.10
Port Royal
Tipperary, Ireland
32
Martin St. John
D. 24 August 1793, Request
ORD
Port Royal
Jason George
D. 24 August 1793, Request
Captain’s Servant
Port Royal
James Solomon
D.. 24 August 1793, Request
Captain’s Servant
Port Royal
William Elliot
D. 24 August 1793, Request
Captain’s Servant
285
Port Royal
Humphrey Potter
D. 24 August 1793, Request
Captain’s Servant
Port Royal
James Hume
D. 24 August 1793, Request
Captain’s Servant
End p 14
Port Royal
George Innes
D. 24 August 1793, Request
Captain’s Servant
p. 15
Port Royal
16
George Ferguson
D. 24 August 1793, Request
Captain’s Servant
290
Port Royal
18
Thomas Love
D. 24 August 1793, Request
Captain’s Servant
Port Royal
12
James Hook
D. 14 January 1794
1st Lieut Servant
Jamaica
15
Charles Strawberry
D. 24 August 1794
Captain’s Servant, Captain Dead
£2.15
Perth, Scotland
24
William Bernevis
ORD, on 3 March 1794 to AB
£ 5
Meath, Ireland
26
John Hunte
D.D. 2-6-1794 Killed by the bursting of a gun off Bernard
AB
£ 5
295
Cork
25
Andrew Harlow
ORD
£ 5
30
John Mahony
R. 1 December 1793, Port Royal
AB
West Indies
21
Martin Jacobus
R. 2 August 1794, Port au Prince, Sick Quarters
AB
Londonderry
50
Michael Cox
D.D. 27 August 1794, Port au Prince, Sick Quarters
AB
Bristol
26
John Goodier
ORD
300
Brunewell Co. Cornwall
40
John Richards
D. 21 July 1795, Port Royal Hospital Unserviceable
ORD
Edinburgh
35
Patrick Mc Laughlin
D. 9 May 1794, Unserviceable
ORD
40
John Burney
D.D. 30 September 1796 at sea
AB
25
Archibald Mc Dougal
D. 23-11-1794, Port au Prince Hospital, Unserviceable
AB
1-6- 1794 Lt. master
Cape François/Hyanis
40
John Dilley
D. 21-6-1795, Port Royal Yard, by order of the Captain
AB
£ 5
305
Puerto Rico, West Indies
44
Joseph Gums
R.. 8 March 1794, Mole St. Nicholas
AB
£ 5
Salisbury, Wales
21
George Roswell
R. 21 July 1795, Port Royal Hospital, Unserviceable
AB
£ 5
Redland Flint, Wales
27
Henry Jones
D. 21 July 1795, Port Royal Hospital, Unserviceable
AB
£ 5
End p. 15
Kent
23
Luke Horn
R. 22 October 1793
AB

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