How prize money treated captured warships

Did prize money differ when a captured frigate entered Royal Navy service rather than being sold or broken up?

The disposal route changed how the value was realized, but captors received prize money whether the ship was purchased into naval service or sold for merchant use or materials.

A captured vessel did not have to enter Royal Navy service for its captors to receive prize money. The ship might instead be sold into merchant use or broken up for material. Payment followed the assessed purchase or sale value, so each disposal route could still reward the capturing force. For Rowley, three frigates plus a convoy made his first independent flag command financially significant as well as operationally successful.