Peter Rainier | |
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Captain_Peter_Rainier_(1784%E2%80%931836).jpg) Rainier in 1806 | |
| Born | 24 August 1784 |
| Died | 13 April 1836, age 51 Southampton |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service | Royal Navy |
| Years of service | 1795–1836 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Commands | HMS Dasher HMS Dedaigneuse HMS Caroline HMS Niger HMS Britannia |
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Captain Peter Rainier CB (24 August 1784 – 13 April 1836) was a Royal Navy officer of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Due to the patronage of his uncle, Vice-Admiral Peter Rainier, he was promoted quickly through the ranks so that by the age of twenty he was already a captain. He was given command of the 36-gun frigate HMS Caroline and on 18 October 1806 he fought a successful action in her against the Dutch 36-gun frigate Maria Reijersbergen at Batavia.
Rainier captured the treasure ship St Raphael in January 1807 off the Philippines, which had on board £500,000 worth of bullion coin. He left Caroline later in the year and received his next command, the 38-gun frigate HMS Niger, in June 1813. In Niger he participated in the capture of the French 44-gun frigate Ceres off the Cape Verde Islands in January 1814. He left Niger at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and did not receive another command until 1831 when he was given the 120-gun ship of the line HMS Britannia, in which he served in the Mediterranean Fleet until 1835. He died on 13 April of the following year in Southampton after a short illness.