	Promoted to post captain in 1780, Pakenham briefly served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station in 1785 before going on to command the third-rate HMS "Gibraltar" in 1796 and the third-rate HMS "Ajax" in July 1798 in the Channel. Promoted to rear-admiral in 1799 and to vice-admiral in 1804, he died at Lowestoft in Suffolk in 1807.