Capture dealt with in HCA 32/124/9 HMS Pembroke is part of a squadron, composed of HMS Somerest, John Barnesley (commanding) ; HMS Augusta, Peter Laurence (commanding) ; HMS Ipswich, William Martin (commanding) ; HMS Berwick, Isaac Townsend (commanding) ; HMS Canterbury, Charles Cotterell (commanding) ; HMS Jersey, Edmund Williams (commanding) ; HMS Oxford, James Compton (commanding) and HMS Kennington, Edward Peyton (commanding). HMS Chester and HMS Greyhound, John Ambrose (commanding) were also part of the squadron but at the time were cruising somewhere else. The squadron was under the command of Admiral Nicholas Haddock.