Admiral of the White Sir Hyde Parker was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars.
Portrait by George Romney, c. 1760
HMS Hermione (1782)
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HMS Hermione was the lead ship of the Hermione class, a six-ship class of 32-gun fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 9 September 1782, at Bristol. Hermione was commissioned and
Hyde Parker (Royal Navy officer, born 1739)
…British naval operations in the West Indies. These included the tracking down and execution of a number of crewmen involved in the mutiny on board HMS Hermione in 1797. On 14 February 1799 Parker was promoted to Admiral of the White. In 1801 he was appointed to command the Baltic Fleet ordered to break up the…
Painting of Santa Cecilia (centre-left) being recaptured in 1799
British sailors and marines boarding Hermione