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William Prowse
William Prowse CB (1752 – 23 March 1826) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Rising from humble origins and joining the navy as an able seaman, he had a highly active career, serving under some of the most famous naval commanders of the age of sail, and participating in some of their greatest victories. He was at Grenada and Martinique under Byron and Rodney, the Glorious First of June under Howe; and commanded ships at Cape St Vincent under Jervis, Cape Finisterre under Calder and Trafalgar under Nelson. He finished his career by serving with distinction in the Mediterranean, and died with the rank of Rear-Admiral.
==Family and early life==
Prowse appears to have been of very humble origins, little is known about his birth or childhood, but he appears to have been born to a working-class Devon family of Cornish origin in 1752.〔White, G. Pawley, A Handbook of Cornish Surnames.(Prowse mentioned by name)〕 He probably went to sea aboard merchant ships initially, but is first recorded in the Navy on 13 November 1771 as an able seaman aboard the Hamoaze guardship, the 74-gun .〔〔 Prowse remained aboard her for the next four years, only leaving her on 26 February 1776. His next posting was to the 74-gun , which he joined in November that year, being rated as midshipman and master's mate on 31 August 1778 by Captain George Bowyer.〔 Prowse and the ''Albion'' were by then serving on the North American station, and went on to see action at the Battle of Grenada on 6 July 1779 and the
Battle of Martinique on 17 April 1780.〔〔 Prowse was wounded in one of the clashes at Martinique, being struck in the head by a large splinter.
The ''Albion'' was paid off on 21 December 1781 and having passed his examination for lieutenancy on 17 January 1782 and by 6 December 1782 he had received his commission and was on 22 December 1782 appointed to the 90-gun second rate under Captain George Vandeput.〔 Prowse was moved again on 14 April to join the 28-gun sixth rate under Captain Brabazon Christian. Prowse continued to serve off North America until March 1784.〔 Prowse then disappears from naval records, and may have spent several years on merchant ships.〔 He briefly reappears in 1787, when tensions with the Netherlands led to his return to service under his old patron Captain Bowyer, now serving on the 74-gun , but again left the service when the crisis had passed.〔〔 The Nootka Sound crisis in 1790 led to another mobilisation of the fleet and Prowse returned to the navy, initially serving aboard the 98-gun and then aboard the 64-gun under Captain Robert Calder.〔〔 The last few years of peace for Prowse were spent aboard Lord Hood's flagship at Portsmouth, the 90-gun , from August 1791 until January 1793.〔〔
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