HMS Director (1784)

HMS Director was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 9 March 1784 at Gravesend.

In early 1797 he surveyed the Humber, preparing a map of the stretch from Spurn to the west of Sunk Island.

On 12 October she took part in the Battle of Camperdown, where she captured the Dutch commander, Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter, and his flagship, Vrijheid.

Director was decommissioned in July 1800 and broken up at Chatham in January 1801.

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Director , raking the Dutch flagship Vrijheid , during the Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797
H.M.S. Director 1784, at St Helena with a view of Jamestown