- Fate
- External links
- Notes
- References
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=[1] | St Albans|ship of the line|3}} | Ship tons burthen=1388 (bm) | 159|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck) | 44|ft|4|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 18|ft|10|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship | Ship propulsion=Sails | Ship complement= | Ship armament=*Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns- Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns
- QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns
- Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns
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}} | HMS Director was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 9 March 1784 at Gravesend.[1] She was laid down speculatively in November 1779, and ordered by the Navy the following year. In 1797 Director was under the command of Captain William Bligh. In early 1797 he surveyed the Humber, preparing a map of the stretch from Spurn to the west of Sunk Island. In May, the crew mutinied during the Nore mutiny.[2] The mutiny was not triggered by any specific actions by Bligh. On 12 October she took part in the Battle of Camperdown, where she captured the Dutch commander, Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter, and his flagship, Vrijheid. FateDirector was decommissioned in July 1800 and broken up at Chatham in January 1801.[1]External links{{Commons category|HMS Director (ship, 1784)}}Notes1. ^1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 182.
2. ^[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Tx68AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA102&dq=The+naval+mutinies+of+1797&hl=en&sa=X&ei=eajOT_6ODsOxgwezrtS6CQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false The Naval Mutinies of 1797]
References{{refbegin}}- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}.
- Winfield, Rif (2005) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817 - Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|1-86176-246-1}}.
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