Michael Clements
Michael Clements (died 1796?) was a captain in the Royal Navy.
Life
Clements was, in May 1757, first lieutenant of the Unicorn frigate when she engaged and captured l'Invincible, a large privateer from St Malo. The captain of the Unicorn was killed, and Clements, after conducting the fight to a successful issue, brought the prize into Kinsale, and went out again in pursuit of the privateer's consort, which he also captured and brought in. For this service Clements was immediately promoted to the command of the London buss, and four months later (29 September) to post rank and the command of the Actaeon frigate.
Clements continued in the Actaeon, attached to the Channel fleet, till the summer of 1759, when he was moved into the Pallas of 36 guns, also with the fleet blockading Brest and Quiberon Bay. He was specially employed, with other frigates, in cruising against French privateers and in communicating with the home ports. By chance, the Pallas, in company with the Æolus and Brilliant, put into Kinsale in the last days of February 1760, just as a message came from the Duke of Bedford, then lord-lieutenant of Ireland, that François Thurot's squadron was at Belfast. They immediately put to sea again, and, coming off Belfast on the morning of the 28th, succeeded in capturing all Thurot's ships with small loss.