Lowestoffe, 1761
Type: Frigate ; 5th rate ; Armament 32-gun x 12-pdr + in addition 4 x 18 pdr carronades
Launched on the River Thames in 1761 ;
Disposal date or year : 11 Aug 1801
Disposal Details : Wrecked on the island of Heaneaga West Indies : crew saved. Robert Plampin.
Complement: 212
Tons (BM): 717
Notes:

Sep 1793 Sent from Toulon to Corsica, with a squadron under Commodore Robert Linzee, with a view to supporting a supposed insurrection.

1 Oct 1793 Unsuccessful attack on Forneilli.

5 Feb 1794 sent to the gulf of San-Fiorenzo with troops to secure the anchorage, where the seamen do wonders with ropes.

2 Apr 1794, departed for Bastia, arriving on the 4th, which place was subsequently taken on 21 May.

9 Mar 1795, the Mediterranean fleet departed from Leghorn, sighting the French fleet the following day. At daylight on the 13th Adm Hotham sent out the signal for a general chase which ended the following day with the capture of the Ca-Ira and Censeur and the fleets heading off in opposite directions. [Captain Benjamin Hallowell].

27 Dec 1795 Captain Troubridge's squadron, including the Lowestoffe, when off Cape Matapan, chased the Badine, a part of M. Ganteaume's squadron. The Badine anchored close off the town; and on the next day the Lowestoffe anchored alongside of her. On the 31st of December Commodore Troubridge, with the remainder of his squadron, anchored in the harbour of Milo, and subsequently steered for Smyrna.

24 Jun 1795 the frigates Dido and Lowestoffe, Captain Robert Gambier Middleton, captured the French frigate Minerve, off Toulon, whilst her compatriot, the Art�mise escaped. The Minerve became a valuable acquisition into the RN.

1 Jan 1799 Capt. R Plampin. Fitting at Plymouth.

26 Jan 1799 Plymouth, William Davies, seaman, of the Lowestoffe was tried for seditious expressions and was sentenced by the court martial to receive 500 lashes round the fleet, and to be imprisoned in solitary confinement in the Marshalsea prison for two years. He was a member of the London Corresponding Society.

1 Feb 1799 Portsmouth, appointed to convoy the trade from hence to the West Indies, which, in light of the movement on 2 Mar., may have been cancelled, unless she only covered the convoy for a limited distance, out of coastal waters, and went to Plymouth ?

2 Mar 1799 Plymouth, departed with the Danai, Sylph and Atalante, on a cruize.

22 Jul � 27 Oct 1799 detained 1 merchant vessel and another 3 when with the Swallow, and Volage and with the latter vessels also captured a privateer of 8 guns.

Circa 17 Mar 1801 arrived at Port Royal, Jamaica, the Calypso, Apollo, Lowestoffe, and Acasta with a Spanish prize.

23 Mar 1801 departed Port Royal, Jamaica, in company with the frigate Syren, a convoy, and the Falmouth packet Princess Charlotte, parting company with the latter, bound for Falmouth, on the 30 Mar.
Circa 15 Sep 1801 the merchant vessel Abigail, Bradley, arrived at Liverpool from Jamaica, with news of the loss of the Lowestoffe on 11 Aug 1801. She had joined the convoy for England, which consisted of about 100 sail, on the 28 Jul, off Port Antonio, and at eight o'clock that evening made sail under convoy of the Lowestoffe and Acasta frigates, Bonetta sloop of war, and Musquito / Musketo and Sting schooners. On the 11th of August, at five o'clock in the morning, saw the Lowesfoffe on shore, with her masts gone, and bilged, on the N.E. end of Heneager ; also four ships and one brig ; only twenty vessels then in sight. the Acasta frigate and Bonetta sloop lying to. At five o'clock in the evening, the Acasta took charge of the ships then in company, and left the Bonetta, and her three boats, to assist the vessels on shore. On 7 Sep, the Abigail parted with the fleet in a gale from the N.W. in lat. 43. 49. long. 39. 6. and arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday last.

3 Sep 1801 a Court Martial was held onboard his Majesty's ship Abergavenny, at Kingston, Jamaica, which continued until the following day, for the purpose of enquiring into the loss of his Majesty's ship Lowestoffe, and into the conduct of Captain Plampin, as to the charge of the convoy, and respecting the loss of the ships mentioned in a former paper. The Court received the evidence of Captains Brown, Warden, Watt, and Melville, who attended upon notice for the purpose, and upon mature consideration, was of opinion, that the conduct of Captain Plampin was judicious in every respect, and that but for the sudden change of the current after dark, the whole of the convoy would have proceeded in safety through the passage, and they fully acquitted Captain Plampin, his Officers, and ship's company, of all blame in respect of the loss of the Lowestoffe, or the ships under convoy.

Circa 27 Jun 1803 Mr. Palmer, of the Pandour, apptd to the Lowestoffe.