page_title: Hyde Parker (Royal Navy officer, born 1784)
section_title: Early career
hierarchical_section_title: Hyde Parker (Royal Navy officer, born 1784) / Early career
caption_attribution_description: Artist Pierre-Julien Gilbert &#160;(1783&#8211;1860)&#160;&#160;Alternative names Pierre Julien GilbertDescriptionFrench painterDate of birth/death 15 March 1783 21 September 1860Location of birth/death Brest BrestAuthority control : Q3383240 VIAF:&#8201;12578905 ISNI:&#8201;0000 0000 6660 4481 ULAN:&#8201;500040891 LCCN:&#8201;no2015139929 BNF:&#8201;14974721k WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q3383240Description English: Detail of the Battle of Grand Port: HMS Iphigenia striking her colours (actually happened the next day)Oil on canvasCollection Musée national de la Marine &#160;&#160;Native nameMusée national de la MarineLocationParisCoordinates48°&#160;51′&#160;43″&#160;N, 2°&#160;17′&#160;15″&#160;E Established1827Web pagewww.musee-marine.frAuthority control : Q1286709 VIAF:&#8201;19144648200974718522 ISNI:&#8201;0000 0001 2259 2914 LCCN:&#8201;n50055356 Museofile:&#8201;M5026 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q1286709Source/Photographer Rama English: Detail of the Battle of Grand Port: HMS Iphigenia striking her colours (actually happened the next day)Oil on canvas
context_page_description: Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker CB, sometimes referred to as Hyde Parker III, was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he took part in the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in January 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. He also commanded the naval forces at the siege of Machias in September 1814 and took the surrender of the frigate USS President in January 1815 during the War of 1812. He became First Naval Lord in February 1852 and in that capacity he ensured that all new warships being procured were propelled by steam and he also increased the size of the active fleet.
context_section_description: The second of three sons of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker and Anne Parker (née Boteler), Parker joined the Royal Navy in February 1796. After initial training at the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth he joined the fifth-rate HMS Cambrian. He transferred to the fifth-rate HMS Narcissus in 1801, and having been promoted to lieutenant on 24 September 1804, took part in the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in January 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. He transferred to the frigate HMS Volontaire later that year and, having been promoted to commander on 22 January 1806, took command of the sloop HMS Prometheus in March 1807 for the Copenhagen expedition.
  Promoted to captain on 13 October 1807, Parker was given command of the third-rate HMS Monmouth in the Downs in March 1811 and the fifth-rate HMS Tenedos on the North American Station in April 1812. He commanded the naval forces at the siege of Machias in September 1814 and took the surrender of the frigate USS President in January 1815 during the War of 1812.
  Parker took command of the fifth-rate HMS Iphigenia also on the North American Station in March 1818 and then the first-rate HMS St Vincent, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, in May 1830. Having been appointed an extra aide-de-camp to the King on 5 September 1831, he took command of the first-rate HMS Victory also at Portsmouth in December 1831 and then the second-rate HMS Rodney in the Mediterranean Fleet in August 1835. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 18 April 1839.
caption: The fifth-rate HMS Iphigenia, a ship Parker commanded on the North American Station
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