Thomas Livingston (Royal Navy officer)

However, this notional command was simply to sail this battle damaged ship (which had helped to capture the Dutch fleet at Saldanha Bay) to the Cape of Good Hope to be paid off and broken in October 1797.

Livingston was replaced by Captain John Larmour at some point during 1801 to take the ship back to Britain to repair battle damage.

[5] Leaving the Diadem he took command of the captured French ship HMS Athenian, which was relaunched at Malta after repairing battle damage.

However, his role with this ship was to sail her to Britain (Plymouth docks) to re-equip to Royal Navy standards.

Mediator had previously been a merchant ship called "Ann and Amelia" launched in 1781 and pressed into Royal Navy service.