Digby Dent (Royal Navy officer, born 1682) explained

Digby Dent
Birth Date:1682
Birth Place:Westminster London
Death Place:Jamaica
Rank:Captain
Commands:HMS Lynn
HMS Ruby
HMS Launceston
HMS Lennox
HMS Captain
HMS Dunkirk
Jamaica Station

Captain Digby Dent (1682–1737) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station.

Naval career

Dent was promoted to post captain in October 1715 on appointment to the command of the fifth-rate HMS Lynn.[1] He transferred to the command of the fourth-rate HMS Mermaid in 1720, of the fifth-rate HMS Launceston in 1722 and of the third-rate HMS Lennox in 1726.[1] He went on to take the command of the third-rate HMS Captain in 1731 and of the fourth-rate HMS Dunkirk in 1735.[1] Dent served briefly as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station, with his broad pennant in the second-rate HMS Shrewsbury, from 1736 until his death in 1737.[2]

Family

His son Digby Dent (c1713–1761) was also a Royal Navy officer.[3] and his Grandson (via son Royal Navy Capt.Cotton Dent 1715–1761), also Digby Dent (1739–1817), was a Royal Naval Officer who was knighted in 1778.

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Digby Dent (d. 1737). Three Decks. 16 October 2015.
  2. Cundall, p. xx
  3. Web site: Digby Dent (d. 1761). Three Decks. 15 October 2015.