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CRESCENT (38) Built in 1810, Woolwich.
Hospital ship in 1840.

  • 1810 Capt. John QUILLIAM, West Indies.
    In 1811 she was in the Baltic and afterwards employed convoying a fleet of merchantmen from Cork to Halifax and Newfoundland. She captured the American privateer schooner ELBREDGE GERRY, pierced for 14 guns and with a complement of 66 men, on 16 September 1813.
    Although CRESCENT was one of the best sailing frigates in the Navy her captain seemed to have an antipathy to making prize money and avoided contact with enemy vessels.
  • In the summer of 1814 Capt. QUILLIAM made representations to Sir Richard KEATS about the conduct of his first lieutenant, Mr Thomas BENNETT, who had been invalided home.
    As a result Lieut. BENNETT was charged with beating the captain's boy, giving a toast "Damnation to the captain," and not maintaining discipline on board CRESCENT.
    When Capt. QUILLIAM arrived at Spithead he subpoenaed all the officers and crew of CRESCENT plus most of the merchants and many of the military officers at St. John's, Newfoundland.
    With those called by Mr BENNETT they amounted to more than 300 persons.
  • When the court martial assembled on board CRESCENT on 3 September 1814 Capt. QUILLIAM refused to prosecute or make any allegations against the lieutenant but, at Mr BENNETT's insistence, the trial went ahead.
    After none of the witnesses confirmed the allegations and made comparisons between the conduct of the two officers which were not favourable to the captain, the charges were dismissed as being "unfounded and vexatious."
  • Lieut. BENNETT brought a charge against the captain that he had not done his utmost to come up with a vessel supposed to be an enemy frigate.
    However one of the principal witnesses for the prosecution had been provided with money by the captain who had allowed the man to absent himself before the trial.
    The result was that Capt. QUILLIAM was acquitted.
  • 1816 In ordinary at Portsmouth.
  • 1840 Lieut. Malachi DONELLAN, 11/1839 Sheerness.
  • 1842 Ditto, Receiving ship at Rio de Janeiro.


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