Thomas Revell Shivers

Thomas Revell Shivers (1751 – 1 June 1827) was a Royal Navy officer in the 18th/19th century who rose to be Vice Admiral.

In January 1779 he was court martialled by Captain Nicholas Vincent on behalf of Admiral Robert Linzee regarding the loss of HMS Penguin.

On 24 January 1782, he came back into active service as commander of HMS Espion, a newly captured French ship of 16 guns.

[1] From 1794 to 1797, he had another long period of shore leave before taking command of the recently captured Dutch ship HMS Zealand in March 1797.

After a further year of shore leave he took his final active command on the 74-gun HMS Defence (1763 \6) in February 1799 plying the south English coast.