Richard Kempenfelt

Rear-Admiral

Richard Kempenfelt
Rear-Admiral; Richard Kempenfelt
	1782 portrait of Kempenfelt by Tilly Kettle
Born	1718; Westminster
Died	29 August 1782; Spithead
Service years	c.1739–1782
Rank	Rear-Admiral
Commands	HMS Lightning; HMS Elizabeth; HMS Queenborough; HMS Grafton; HMS Norfolk; Governor of Cavite; HMS Buckingham; HMS Alexander
Conflicts	War of the Austrian Succession Battle of Porto Bello (1739); Battle of Cartagena de Indias; ; Seven Years' War Action of 29 April 1758; Battle of Negapatam (1758); Siege of Madras; Battle of Pondicherry; Siege of Pondicherry (1760); Battle of Manila (1762); ; American Revolutionary War Armada of 1779; Battle of Ushant (1781); ;

Rear-Admiral Richard Kempenfelt (1718 – 29 August 1782) was a Royal Navy officer best known for his victory at the Battle of Ushant in 1781 and dying when HMS Royal George accidentally sank at Portsmouth the following year.