Admiral Sir Henry Trollope, GCB

Order of the Bath

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 (20 April 1756 – 2 November 1839) was an officer of the British

Great Britain

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 Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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Early career

He entered the navy at the age of 14. In the American Revolutionary War

American Revolutionary War

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 he served aboard HMS Captain

HMS Captain (1743)

HMS Captain was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 14 April 1743....

 and HMS Asia

HMS Asia (1764)

HMS Asia was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 March 1764 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She participated in the American Revolutionary War and the capture of Martinique in 1794....

. He fought at the battles of Lexington (19 April 1775) and Bunker Hill

Battle of Bunker Hill

The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War...

 (17 June 1775) and the Siege of Boston

Siege of Boston

The Siege of Boston was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War, in which New England militiamen—who later became part of the Continental Army—surrounded the town of Boston, Massachusetts, to prevent movement by the British Army garrisoned within...

 (1775–1776). He served with John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore

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 during the latter's campaigns in Virginia

Virginia

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 and Rhode Island

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In 1777 he was appointed third lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 to the fourth-rate

Fourth-rate

In the British Royal Navy, a fourth rate was, during the first half of the 18th century, a ship of the line mounting from 46 up to 60 guns. While the number of guns stayed subsequently in the same range up until 1817, after 1756 the ships of 50 guns and below were considered too weak to stand in...

 Bristol

HMS Bristol (1775)

HMS Bristol was a fourth-rate ship with 50 guns, launched in 1775. During the American War of Independence, she was Sir Peter Parker's flagship during the attack on Sullivan's Island on June 28, 1776 and was heavily damaged during the battle. Later in the war, she was stationed off Jamaica, and...

 and took part in attacks on Fort Montgomery, Fort Clinton

Fort Clinton

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, Philadelphia and Mud Island.

Post Captain

He was promoted to Post Captain in 1781. Following the peace of 1783

Treaty of Paris (1783)

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 between Britain and the United States of America, he lived in Wales before returning to sea in 1790 as the captain of the 38-gun fifth rate Prudente.

Trollope, described as "carronade

Carronade

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-crazy" in Gardiner's Warships of the Napoleonic Era, commanded two ships armed entirely with carronades: Rainbow, a 44-gun frigate

Frigate

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 with which he stunned the French frigate Hébé (1782) into surrendering without resistance; and Glatton

HMS Glatton (1795)

HMS Glatton was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She was launched as the Glatton, an East Indiaman, on 29 November 1792 by Wells & Co. of Blackwell. The Royal Navy bought her in 1795 and converted her into a warship. Glatton was unusual in that for a time she was the only ship-of-the-line...

, with which he routed a French squadron of four frigate

Frigate

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s, two corvette

Corvette

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s, a brig

Brig

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 and a cutter, and drove them into Flushing

Flushing, Netherlands

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The Nore Mutiny

In March–April 1797, Trollope kept Glattons crew from joining the Nore mutiny

Spithead and Nore mutinies

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. By threatening to fire on the 64-gun Overyssel and the 40-gun Beaulieu, which were in open mutiny, he convinced their crews to return to duty.

The battle of Camperdown

Later in 1797 he commanded the 74-gun

Seventy-four (ship)

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 Russell

HMS Russell (1764)

HMS Russell was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 November 1764 at Deptford.In 1782, she was commanded by Captain James Saumarez at the Battle of the Saintes. In 1794 she was part of Admiral Howe's fleet at the Glorious First of June, and in the following year...

 at the Battle of Camperdown

Battle of Camperdown

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. For his part in this victory he was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath

Order of the Bath

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 and elevated as a Knight Grand Cross in 1831.

Retirement

He was promoted to Rear Admiral on 1 January 1801 and to Admiral in 1812, but did not serve in an active role. He committed suicide at Freshford

Freshford

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, near Bath on 2 November 1839.

Legacy

The Captain-class

Captain class frigate

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 frigate

Frigate

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 HMS Trollope was named for him.