Commodore Joseph Deane (c. 1731 – 12 January 1780) was a senior

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officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, North American Station from September 1766 to November 1766.

Naval career

Deane joined the Royal Navy in 1746. Promoted to captain on 17 October 1758, he 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 ...

. He went on to command the sixth-rate and saw action during the siege of Quebec in 1760. He went on to command the fifth-rate and then the sixth-rate before briefly serving as Commander-in-Chief, North American Station from September 1766 to November 1766. After that, he commanded, successively, the fifth-rate , 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 ...

and, finally, the third-rate and took part in the action of 7 March 1779. Deane died at

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in Jamaica, on 12 January 1780.

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