Rear-Admiral Alexander Innes (died 1786) was a
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
officer who became Commander-in-Chief of the
Jamaica Station.
Naval career
Promoted to
post captain on 25 June 1756, Innes was given command of the
sixth-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works and ...
HMS ''Mermaid'' in 1756.
He then took command of the
fourth-rate HMS ''Enterprise'' in 1758 and of the
third-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third r ...
HMS ''Hampton Court'' in 1762 and took part in the
Battle of Havana in summer of that year during the
Anglo-Spanish War. After that he was then given command of the
second-rate HMS ''Queen'' in 1778. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief of the
Jamaica Station with his flag in the 50-gun in 1786 but died in office.
[Cundall, p. xx]
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Royal Navy rear admirals
1786 deaths