Dimensions
DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric EquivalentBWAS-1714Length of Gundeck146' 3"Imperial Feet44.5025 Length of Keel120' 0"Imperial Feet36.576 Breadth40' 9"Imperial Feet12.4206 Depth in Hold17' 7 ½"Imperial Feet5.1943 Burthen1,059 63⁄94Tons BM Armament
24.1.1780Broadside Weight = 414 Imperial Pound ( 187.749 kg)BWAS-1714 | Lower Gun Deck | 22 British 24-PounderUpper Gun Deck | 22 British 12-PounderQuarterdeck | 4 British 6-PounderForecastle | 2 British 6-PounderCrew Complement
Date# of MenNotesSource
2.4.1766350Design Complement
3 Flag Officers
DatesRankNameSource1784 - bef.15.9.1786Rear-Admiral of the BlueBWAS-171410.2.1789 - 1.1792Rear-Admiral of the Red ADM 6/23/58BWAS-171410.1810 - bef.17.9.1813Rear-Admiral of the RedBWAS-171414 Commissioned Officers
DatesRankNameSource4.11.1779 - 2.1781Second Lieutenant ADM 6/22/46ref:61616.8.1783 - 15.9.1786Third Lieutenant ADM 6/23/113ADM 6/2310.2.1789 - 14.6.1793Third Lieutenant ADM 6/23/508ADM 6/2319.7.1790 - 19.10.1790Fourth Lieutenant Transfered ADM 6/24/71
Issued by , Nova Scotia - Canada - Saint Lawrence & Nova Scotia
Confirmed 28.9.1790ADM 6/2411.5.1793 - 1793First Lieutenant ADM 6/24/238ADM 6/2411.5.1793 - 14.6.1793Third Lieutenant ADM 6/24/238ADM 6/2415.6.1793 - 1793Second Lieutenant ADM 6/24/246ADM 6/2415.6.1793 - 2.8.1793Third Lieutenant Transfered ADM 6/24/246ADM 6/2416.8.1793 - 16.4.1794Third Lieutenant ADM 6/24/261ADM 6/2428.11.1793 - 16.4.1794Fourth Lieutenant ADM6/24/286ADM 6/2417.4.1794 - 20.4.1794Third Lieutenant Transfered ADM 6/25/33ADM 6/2417.4.1794 - 1794Fourth Lieutenant ADM 6/25/33ADM 6/254.2.1806 - 1806Acting Lieutenant ADM 1/2516/87ADM 111.5.1809 - 22.9.1810LieutenantNBD184921 Warrant Officers
DatesRankNameSource18.4.1789 - 26.8.1789Surgeon's MateADM 29/818.6.1792 - bef.3.5.1793Second Surgeons' Materef:19813.5.1793 - 7.9.1794Second Surgeons' Materef:198116.5.1793 - bef.3.6.1794Surgeonref:198120.11.1793 - bef.8.9.1794First Surgeons' Materef:19813.6.1794 - bef.29.12.1795Surgeonref:19818.9.1794 - bef.6.1.1796First Surgeons' Materef:198128.6.1795 - 7.12.1795Acting Surgeonref:198129.12.1795 - bef.7.4.1796Surgeonref:19819.1.1796 - 6.1.1797Acting First Surgeons' Materef:19817.4.1796 - bef.15.7.1796Surgeonref:198115.7.1796 - bef.14.6.1797Surgeonref:198126.7.1796 - bef.28.2.1798Second Surgeons' Materef:19816.1.1797 - bef.28.2.1798First Surgeons' Materef:198114.6.1797 - bef.11.7.1798Surgeonref:198128.2.1798 - bef.11.6.1798Surgeonref:198111.6.1798 - 1798First Surgeons' Materef:198111.7.1798 - 1798Surgeonref:198117.12.1801 - 1801Surgeonref:19813.7.1804 - 14.4.1805BoatswainNAO25.2.1806 - 25.6.1808Masterref:905
Notes on Ship
ADAMANT,50 (1780 Liverpool. HS 1809)
In November 1779 Lieut. Isaac COFFIN (later an Admiral) was appointed to ADAMANT, which was about to be launched, and in June 1780 he brought her round to Plymouth under jury masts. In the following August she sailed for New York with a convoy.
1785 Flagship of Sir Richard HUGHES, Leeward Is.
1789 Capt. KN0X, flagship of Sir Richard HUGHES, North American station. ADAMANT sailed for Halifax in June 1789. In June 1790 Capt. KN0X was obliged to retire from the service due to bad health and Lieut. William H0PE of the RATTLE sloop was appointed by Sir Richard to act in his place. (Later in the year he acted as captain of PENEL0PE before returning to ADAMANT.) His appointment was not confirmed by the Admiralty and ADAMANT paid off at Plymouth in the summer of 1792.
1793 Capt. W BENTINCK. 1794 Capt. Henry D'Esterre DARBY, 6/94. ADAMANT was employed in escorting the trade to and from the Mediterranean and the West Indies. Capt. DARBY removed to BEL