Source: Public Record Office: ADM 36/14817
Title: H. M S. Goliath Muster Roll¹
Date: 1798
Place: at sea

1 April 1798-31 September 1798

[Bounty Paid: blank]
[No:] [40]6
[Entry: blank]
[Appearance: blank]
[Whence and whether Prest or not: blank]
[Place and County where Born: blank]
[Age at Time of Entry in this Ship: blank]
[No and Letter of Tickets: blank]
[MENS NAMES:] William Pluck
[Qualities:] LM
[D: D. D. or R.²: blank]
[Time of Discharge: blank] [Year: blank] [Whither or for what Reason: blank]
[Stragling or Neglect: blank]
[Slop Cloaths Supplied by Navy: blank]
[Cloaths in Sick Quarters: blank]
[Beds: blank]
[Dead Mens Cloaths: blank]
[Wages remitted from Abroad: blank]
[Date of the Parties Order for alloting Monthly Pay: blank]
[Two Months Advance: blank]
[Necessaries supplied Marines on Shore: blank]
[To whom the Tickets were Delivered: blank]
[When Mustered:]
[Month:] April [Days:] 8 a 16 b 22 c 28 e
[Month:] May [Days:] 9 f 17 g 24 h 31 i
[Month:] June [Days:] 7 a 15 b 22 c 30 e
[Month:] July [Days:] 8 f 15 g 23 h 30 i
[Month:] August [Days:] 6 a 16 b 22 c 30 e
[Month:] Sepr [Days:] 6 f 13 g 23 h 30 i

[1] present at the Battle of the Nile 1 and 2 August 1798
[2] discharged, dead or run
LM = landsman - presumably someone who is neither ordinary nor able seaman but for whom there are always plenty of other tasks on board a ship of the time.

1 October 1798-30 November 1798

[Bounty Paid: blank]
[No:] [406]
[Entry:] 6 [Jan^y.] [Year:] [96]
[Appearance:] [Mar^h 11 96]
[Whence and whether Prest or not:] [Deserter from the Edgar London vol]
[Place and County where Born:] Llanhangell Montgomeryshire
[Age at Time of Entry in this Ship:] 24
[No and Letter of Tickets: blank]
[MENS NAMES:] William Pluck
[Qualities:] LM
[D: D. D. or R. : blank]
[Time of Discharge: blank] [Year: blank] [Whither or for what Reason: blank]
[Stragling: blank]
[Necessaries supplied Marines on Shore: blank]
[Venereals: blank]
[Cloaths in Sick Quarters: blank]
[Dead Mens Cloaths: blank]
[Wages remitted from Abroad:] £8.0.0
[Date of the Parties Order for alloting Monthly Pay: blank]
[Two Months Advance: blank]
[Slops Supplied by Navy Board:] 16/9 [Sandwich] 7.8.2
[Beds:] 11/5 [Sandwich] 11/5
[Tobacco:] 2/ Sandwich 8/
[To whom the Tickets were Delivered: blank]
[When Mustered
[Month:] Octr. [Days:] 8 a 14 b 22 c 31 e
[Month:] Novr [Days:] 7 f 14 g 22 h 30 i

We learn a little more about William from this:
[1] he was born in Wales
[2] he was aged 24, so born in 1774
[3] he had been on the Goliath for nearly 3 years