Name Digby Dent Died 1737 Service/branch Royal Navy | Role Commanding officer Rank Commodore | |
Allegiance Kingdom of Great Britain Commands held HMS Lynn
HMS Ruby
HMS Launceston
HMS Lennox
HMS Captain
HMS Dunkirk
Jamaica Station | ||
Commodore Digby Dent (died 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. 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. He went on to take the command of the third-rate HMS Captain in 1731 and of the fourth-rate HMS Dunkirk in 1735.
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.
References
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