OFFICERS’ NAMES
[Robert] Roddam, Vice-Admiral, Port Admiral.
Dead [1808]. An admiral. Had his flag on board the old Conquistador, 60, in the American war, as port admiral at the Nore, at the time Mr. Fegan [post, p. [214]] was sent onboard.—[D.N.B.]
Hon. Samuel Barrington, Admiral of the blue.
Dead [1800]. A great officer. See his masterly manœuvre in the West Indies.—[D.N.B.]
[John] Elliot, Vice-Admiral.
Dead [1808]. This first-rate officer captured after a severe action the French squadron off the Irish coast commanded by Thurot, who fell in the contest. He also commanded the Edgar, 74, in the action when Don Langara was defeated and taken by Admiral Rodney. He commanded at Newfoundland as Governor of that island; a great astronomer and an able sailor.—[D.N.B.]
Sir John Jervis, K.B., Rear-Admiral.
Dead [1823]. Earl St. Vincent, admiral of the fleet; needs no comment here.—[D.N.B.]
Jonathan Faulknor, Senr., Rear-Admiral.
Dead [1795]. A most able officer who had seen a great deal of service, and no man understood it better.
Robert Calder, Esq., Captain.
Dead [1818]. An admiral, a baronet, and K.C.B. I have already spoken of him.—[D.N.B.]
Robert Carthew Reynolds, Captain.
Dead [1811]. A rear-admiral; unfortunately lost on the coast of Denmark, in the St. George, 98; a brave and meritorious officer. [D.N.B.]
John Bourmaster, Esq., Captain.
Dead [1807]. A vice-admiral; one of the best men that ever did honour to the British navy. [Admiral.]
John Dolling [or Doling], 1st Lieutenant.
Dead [1795]. A post captain with Admiral Rainier in the East Indies.
Paddy Lee, 2nd and then 1st Lieutenant.
Dead. A commander; a strange, droll hand.
[John] Mathews, 3rd Lieutenant.
Dead [1798]. A post captain [1793]; a first-rate seaman.
Benjamin Hallowell [afterwards Carew], 4th Lieutenant.
Dead [1834]. An admiral and G.C.B.; a brave and skilful officer.—[D.N.B.]
Robert Savage Daniel, 5th Lieutenant.
Killed on board the Bellerophon, 74, at the battle of the Nile; a loss to the service.
Wm. Prowse, 2nd and then 1st Lieutenant.
Dead [1826]. A rear-admiral [1821], C.B.; a worthy man.
Ross, Lieutenant; I forget how he stood.
Dead. A satirical gentleman and would be thought a poet because he wrote a play that was damned, and some poems in doggerel rhymes of scurrilous merit.
James Nicholl Morris, 1st Lieutenant.
Dead [1830]. A vice-admiral, K.C.B.; a very brave and meritorious officer. He commanded the Colossus, 74, at Trafalgar.—[D.N.B.]
Geo. Grey, 2nd Lieutenant.
Dead [1828]. Hon. Sir Geo. Grey, Bart. [1814], K.C.B.; late commissioner at Portsmouth yard.
Wm. Chantrell, 2nd, 3rd, and 1st Lieutenant.
Dead. A very droll and strange fellow.
[Robert] Lloyd, Lieutenant.
I believe a vice-admiral of the blue [1837. Died, vice-admiral of the white, 1846.—O’Byrne].
Richard Simmonds, Lieutenant.
Dead. Was an agent of transports and lieutenant at Haslar Hospital. Nicknamed Gentleman Jack, because he came to see us in our berth in the cockpit, and said he was the gentleman below, but the officer on deck.
James Carpenter, Lieutenant.
Vice-admiral of the red; since promoted to be admiral of the blue [Jan. 10, 1837. Died, admiral of the white, 1845.—O’Byrne.]
Daniel Dobree, Lieutenant.
Dead. A post captain [1802]. See Blonde.
[Thomas] Bowen, Lieutenant.
Uncertain. I believe a post captain [1798]; fiery Welshman. [Griffith Bowen, his servant. Died 1809.]
Andrew Bracey Taylor, Lieutenant.
Dead. A good officer.
[William] Elliot, 1st Lieutenant.
Dead. A commander. See Salisbury.
Philip Charles Durham, 2nd Lieutenant.
Admiral of the white, G.C.B.; port admiral at Portsmouth. [Died 1845.—D.N.B.]
Nicholas Kemp, Lieutenant.
Dead. A commander [1797]; a most worthy fellow.
Jackson Dowsing, Lieutenant.
Dead. All jaw and singing from morn till night.
[Edward] Marsh, Lieutenant.
Dead [1813]. A post captain [1797]; steady and quiet.
Irwin, Lieutenant.
Dead. A very funny officer.
Nathaniel Portlock, Lieutenant.
Dead [1817]. A post captain; went a voyage round the world; an able navigator.—[D.N.B.]
Mackey, Lieutenant.
Dead. A commander; went a voyage round the world; came safe home; drunk grog and died.
Charles Maurice Stocker, 1st Lieutenant.
Killed by the wind of a shot on board the Sans Pareil, 84, in Lord Bridport’s action.
John Richards, Lieutenant.
Dead [1830, aged 70]. A post captain [1809]. This man belonged to the Boreas at the time my father was on board; he was then before the mast. When Captain Thompson was appointed to the Alcide, 74, he took Richards with him in a low capacity, and afterwards put him on the quarter deck; when his time was served he got made a lieutenant. He was a good sailor, but proud, insolent, and vulgar in his language; full of strange sayings and low wit, and overbearing to those of inferior rank. Lieutenant Daniels once told him to go aboard the Alcide again to his former station. He felt the rebuke severely.—[Marshall, vi. 9.]
[Thomas] Ireland, 2nd Lieutenant.
Killed in battle on June 1, 1794.
Samuel Mottley, Lieutenant.
A post captain [1802]. I never agreed with him. Since made a retired rear-admiral. [Died, 1841.—Marshall, iv. 684.]
Norborne Thompson, Lieutenant.
A rear-admiral. See Salisbury.
Charles Carter, Lieutenant.
A post captain; since promoted to be a retired rear-admiral. [Died, a vice-admiral, 1848.—O’Byrne.]
Baldwin, Captain of Marines.
Dead. Insane from grog.
Ninian Jeffreys, Master.
A quiet, good man.
[William] Morgan, Chaplain.
Uncertain. A very worthy gentleman.
[James] Kirk, Surgeon.
Dead. Quiet and inoffensive.
[George] Purvis, Admiral’s Secretary.
Dead.
[John] Delafons, Purser.
Dead.
Robert Bustard, Mate.
Dead. A lieutenant; a most excellent fellow.
Billy Culmer, Mate.
Dead. A lieutenant; everyone has heard of Billy.
James Rogers, Midshipman and mate.
A commander [1806]; since a retired captain.
John Talbot, Signal midshipman.
Hon. Sir John Talbot, K.C.B.; a vice-admiral of the red. [Died, admiral and G.C.B., 1851.—O’Byrne.]
[Richard Turner] Hancock, Signal midshipman.
A post captain. [Died, a rear-admiral, 1846.—O’Byrne.]
[Richard] Bowen, Signal midshipman.
A brave and able officer; he was captain of the Terpsichore, and was killed at the attack at Teneriffe when Nelson lost his arm.
Lord Amelius Beauclerk, Midshipman.
Admiral of the white, G.C.B., G.C.H.; chief naval aide-de-camp to the king. See Salisbury.
Roddam, Midshipman.
Uncertain. A Hun; a Goth; and a Vandal.
Galton, Midshipman.
Dead. A lieutenant; a good sailor.
Robert Perkins, Midshipman.
Dead. A lieutenant; a droll old guardo midshipman.
[Stephen] Skinner, Midshipman.
Dead. A lieutenant; a smart officer.
Tatham, Midshipman.
Uncertain. A lieutenant, but unfortunately broke by court martial; a droll, good fellow.
Henry Richardson, Midshipman.
Dead. A lieutenant; a crabbed old fellow called Long-Belly.
Pitt Burnaby Greene, Midshipman.
A post captain; a very good officer. Since dead [1837.—Marshall, vi. 335].
Charles Otter, Midshipman.
Dead [1831]. A post captain. He commanded the Proserpine, 32, when she was captured by some French frigates in the Mediterranean.—[Marshall, iv. 553.]
Jonathan Christian, Midshipman.
Dead. A commander. One of the few in the service that I disagreed with. I found him waspish, snappish, and disagreeable.—[Marshall, xi. 12.]
Daniel Kirk, Son of the surgeon; midshipman.
Dead. Unfortunate from being a dupe to women of the town. [Borne as his father’s servant, then as A.B., then as midshipman.]
John Hinton, Midshipman.
Dead. A lieutenant; crabbed as the devil.
[Thomas] Goddard, Midshipman.
Dead. I believe was a lieutenant and severely wounded at the evacuation of Toulon.—[James, i. 87.]
Francis John Nott, Midshipman.
A post captain; out-pension, Greenwich Hospital. Dead [1840.—Marshall, vi. 236].
Thomas H. Tidy, Midshipman.
Dead. A commander. Poor Tom.
Hon. Dunbar Douglas, Midshipman.
Dead. A commander; a glorious fellow. A follower of Earl St. Vincent. When a midshipman with him in the Foudroyant, 84, he was stationed in the foretop, and having hold of the main-top bowline by accident when the ship was going about, he was hauled out of the top and pitched into the main rigging without receiving the smallest injury, having the presence of mind to hold fast by the slack of the bowline, and by that means saved his life. This I heard related at Lord St. Vincent’s table. Her mainsail was not set at the time.
[John] W. T. Dixon, Midshipman.
Dead. He commanded the Apollo, 36, when that ship was unfortunately lost on the coast of Portugal with several of her convoy, and was drowned. He was brother to Admiral Sir Manley Dixon.
Thos. Byam Martin, Midshipman.
Admiral of the white, G.C.B. [Admiral of the fleet; died 1854. N.R.S., vols. xxiv., xii., xix.]
John Harvey, Midshipman.
Admiral of the blue, K.C.B.; since dead [1837.—D.N.B.]
Jack Eaton, Mate.
Dead. My worthy and lamented old messmate; a first-rate seaman. He commanded the Marlborough, 74, in 1797, and in a fit of insanity killed himself at the admiralty.
Francis Temple, Midshipman.
A post captain; since made a retired rear-admiral [1837 Died admiral, 1863.—O’Byrne].
Augustus Brine, Midshipman.
A post captain; since made a retired rear-admiral. [Died 1840.]
P. Browne, Midshipman.
A post captain. [Died 1842.—Marshall, vi. 95.]
Wm. Bush, Midshipman.
A commander.
Richard Simmonds, Midshipman.
Dead. He was made a commander, but broke by court martial, and some years after put on the list as lieutenant. He fought well, and that was all.
John Bruce, Midshipman.
Dead. A commander.
James Ross, Midshipman with one arm.
Dead [1810]. A post captain; son of Admiral Sir John Lockhart Ross.
[John] Buller, Midshipman.
Uncertain.
John Key, Midshipman.
Dead. A lieutenant. See Brunswick.
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Jemmy Johnstone, Midshipman.
Dead [1823]. A post captain [1806]; a rigid disciplinarian, who drank like the devil.
Chas. Grant, Midshipman.
Dead [1825]. Commodore at the Cape of Good Hope; C.B.; an excellent officer.—[Marshall, iii. 300.]
William Durban, Midshipman.
A post captain, LL.D.; a distinguished officer with first-rate abilities; since promoted to be rear-admiral of the blue. Dead [1837.—Marshall, iv. 845].
Jas. Dalgleish, Mate.
A commander; a good old sailor. [Died, 1846.—Marshall, xi. 135.]
Jackson, Midshipman.
Uncertain. A good-natured old squinting fellow.
Morton.
Dead. A lieutenant, called ‘Red Muzzle’; said to have killed himself.
Geo. Clark, Midshipman.
Dead. A lieutenant. When we had pudding for dinner, if any was left and put by for next day, he used to call us up in the night to have a blow out with the remainder. This was called ‘puddening[[83]] the flats.’
[William] Launder, Midshipman.
A most worthy fellow; a lieutenant, killed on board the Bellerophon at the battle of the Nile.
Chas. Came, Midshipman.
Dead. A commander.
Laurie, Midshipman.
A lieutenant; murdered at St. John’s, Newfoundland.
[Robert] Spicer, Midshipman.
Dead. A lieutenant.
Chatterton, Midshipman.
Uncertain. All jaw and drink.
John Delafons, Midshipman; son of the purser.
First lieutenant of Bellona at Copenhagen [1801. Died, commander, 1805].
[Thomas] Delafons, Midshipman; son of the purser.
Commander. [Died 1848. Borne as purser’s servant, afterwards A.B.—Marshall, xi. 153.]
Wm. Archbold, Midshipman.
A commander. Crab-apple.
Philip Anstruther, Midshipman.
Dead. A commander.
Chas. Anstruther, Midshipman.
Dead. A lieutenant.
Richard Curry, Midshipman.
The senior post captain on the list; since promoted to be rear-admiral of the red [1837]. C.B. [1831. Died, admiral of the blue, 1856.—O’Byrne.]
[George] Johnstone, Midshipman.
A lieutenant, murdered in Five Bell Lane, near Deptford.
[John] O’Connor, Midshipman.
Uncertain. I hated him.
John McDonald, Mate.
A commander; a very smart officer. [Died 1845.—O’Byrne.]
Chas. Bennet, Midshipman.
A commander; since a retired captain. [Died 1843.—Marshall, x. 411.]
John Chest, Midshipman.
Uncertain. When he joined the ship he had a very large chest, and had not been on board above an hour when some fellow painted on the lid in large white letters, ‘JOHN CHEST HIS BOX.’
Howell Powell, 1st Assistant Surgeon.
Poor Powell was surgeon of the Babet [1801], when that ship foundered with all hands. He was one of the best fellows I ever met with.
Jacky Marr, Boatswain.
Dead. Jacky was as good a seaman as any in the navy, but too severe. He was made boatswain of the sheer hulk and then promoted to the dockyard.
Jeffries, Boatswain.
Dead. A good sailor, and a very worthy character.
[William] Rivers, Gunner.
Dead. Very much respected.
Strong, Carpenter.
One of the oldest warrant officers living; highly respected; has been in almost every general action since that of Keppel [1778]. Since dead.
William Pye, Schoolmaster.
Dead. A purser. See Salisbury.
[Ben.] Jefferys, Clerk.
Dead. A purser; a very worthy fellow.