HMS Standard ( 1782 ) HMS " Standard " was a 64 - gun Royal Navy third - rate ship of the line , launched on 8 October 1782 at Deptford . She was the last of the 15 Intrepid class vessels , which were built to a design by John Williams . Early career . She was commissioned in September 1782 under Captain William Dickson , and recommissioned in March 1783 as a guardship at Plymouth . She was recommissioned in September 1786 under Charles Chamberlyane , still as a guardship , and paid off in February 1788 . In April 1795 she was recommissioned under Captain Joseph Ellison , for Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren ' s squadron for the Quiberon operation . " Standard " sailed for the East Indies on 28 February 1796 , temporarily under the command of Captain Lukin . By October she was in the North Sea . In February 1797 she was under Captain Thomas Parr , and then in September under Captain Thomas Shivers . From mid - April to mid - May , " Standard " was one of the many vessels caught up in the Nore Mutiny . On 5 May the crew had taken over the ship and trained cannon on officer ’ s country over the issue of pay in arrears . After the mutiny collapsed , one of the leaders on " Standard " , William Wallis , shot himself to avoid trial and hanging . She was recommissioned in February 1799 as a prison ship at Sheerness under lieutenant Thomas Pamp . In November she was fitted as a convalescent ship at Chatham . One month later she was recommissioned under Lieutenant Jacques Dalby as a hospital ship at Sheerness . Mediterranean . Between March and May 1801 " Standard " was re - fitted at Chatham as a 64 - gun ship , being commissioned in April under Captain Charles Stewart , for the North Sea . She was paid off , repaired , fitted at various times , and recommissioned in August 1805 , " Standard " was recommissioned under Captain Thomas Harvey . She then sailed to the Mediterranean to join Rear - Admiral Sir Thomas Louis ' s squadron . While in the Mediterranean she served during Vice Admiral Sir John Duckworth ' s unsuccessful 1807 Dardanelles Operation . On 19 February , " Standard " suffered three wounded while forcing the Dardanelles . Near a redoubt on Point Pesquies the British encountered a Turkish squadron of one ship of 64 guns , four frigates and eight other vessels , most of which they ran aground . Marines from " Pompee " spiked the 31 guns on the redoubt . " Standard " and destroyed three Turkish frigates that had run ashore . On 27 February " Standard " had two men wounded assisting a Royal Marine landing party on the island of Prota . On the way out , the Turkish castle at Abydos fired on the British squadron . Granite cannonballs weighing 7 - 800 pounds and measuring 6 ' 6 " in circumference hit " Windsor Castle " , " Standard " and " Active " . The shot itself killed four men on " Standard " . It also started a fire and explosion that led four seamen to jump overboard , where they drowned . In all , " Standard " lost four dead , 47 wounded , and four missing ( believed drowned ) . In all , the British lost 29 killed and 138 wounded . No ship was lost . On 26 March 1808 , she and the 38 - gun frigate " Active " captured the Italian brig " Friedland " , which they took to Malta as a prize . Captain Richard Mowbray of " Active " took possession of " Friedland " after a chase of several hours . The brig might have escaped had she not lost her topmast . She was one year old and was armed with 16 French 12 - pounder guns . " Active " took her prize to Malta , together with the prisoners , who included Commodore Don Amilcar Paolucci , commander in chief of the Italian Marine , and Knight of the Iron Crown . On 16 June , " Standard " was sailing off Corfu when she encountered the Italian gunboat " Volpe " , which was armed with one iron 4 - pounder , and the French dispatch boat " Legera " . When the wind fell , Harvey sent his pinnace , his cutter and his yawl in pursuit . The British caught up with their quarry after having rowed for two hours . They captured " Volpe " despite facing stiff resistance and ran " Legera " aground about four miles north of Cape St . Mary . The French crew took to the rocks above their vessel and kept up a continuous small arms fire on the British seamen who took possession of the vessel and towed her off . They then burned both vessels . Despite the resistance and small arms fire the British had suffered no casualties . Last years . In 1809 she was in the Baltic under Captain Aiskew Hollis as part of the Gunboat War . On May 18 a squadron consisting of " Standard " , the frigate " Owen Glendower " , , , and captured the island of Anholt . A landing party of seamen and marines under the command of Captain William Selby of " Owen Glendower " , with the assistance of Captain Edward Nicolls of the " Standard " s marines , landed . The Danish garrison of 170 men put up a sharp but ineffectual resistance that killed one British marine and wounded two ; the garrison then surrendered . The British took immediate possession of the island . Hollis , in his report , stated that Anholt was important in that it could furnish supplies of water to His Majesty ' s fleet , and afford a good anchorage to merchant vessels sailing to and from the Baltic . However , the principal objective of the mission was to restore the lighthouse on the island to its pre - war state to facilitate the movement of British men of war and merchantmen navigating the dangerous seas there . On 19 December 1810 " Standard " sailed for the Mediterranean again . In February 1811 she was on the Portugal station , temporarily under Captain Joshua Horton . In May she was under the temporary command of Captain Charles Fleming . Fate . She was paid off into ordinary in 1813 . " Standard " was broken up in 1816 .