HMS Diadem -ship of the line of the Royal Navy (1782)

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HMS Diadem was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 December 1782 at Chatham. She participated in the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797 under Captain George Henry Towry.
In 1798 she was converted to serve as a troopship.[2] On 7 April 1799 she left Portsmouth together with Trompe. They were carry the West York militia to Dublin.
In 1800 under the command of Post Captain Sir Thomas Livingstone she was employed in the expedition to Quiberon and Belle Île under Sir Edward Pellew, subsequently she was employed in the expedition to Cádiz under Admiral Lord Keith.
Because Diadem served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorised in 1850 to all surviving claimants.
Following the invasion and occupation of the Cape by the British in 1795, which was part of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Battle of Blauberg took place, also known as the Battle of Cape Town, fought near Cape Town on Wednesday 8 January 1806, was a small but significant military engagement during the War of the Third Coalition, one of the Napoleonic Wars. After a British victory, peace was made under the Treaty Tree in Woodstock establishing British control over the Dutch Cape Colony. The Cape later became a permanent part of the British Empire following the Congress of Vienna that marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1814.
Between April and July 1810 Diadem was at Chatham being fitted for service as a troopship of 28 guns. In June Captain John Phillimore (or Philmore) commissioned her for Lisbon. She then spent some time working with the Spanish anti-French forces on the north coast of Spain. In January 1812 she carried released Danish prisoners of war from Plymouth to Chatham. On 7 October Diadem captured the American letter of marque Baltimore.
Later, she sailed to the Halifax station. Phillimore transferred to command of HMS Eurotas on 4 May 1813. Diadem was broken up in September 1832.

The stamp was created based on a fragment of the painting by Thomas Whitcombe : “HMS Diadem at capture of Good Hope ”.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Diadem_(1782).