HMS Hermione, Muster 7 April 1797 to 7 July 1797
By John G. M. Sharp
At USGenWeb Archives
All rights reservedOn 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.
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 1795The 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.pdf11. 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 -15Widow'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 mutinyAs 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 Mp. 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- 94p. 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