William Chantrell, 1st Lieutenant.
Dead. See Barfleur.
William Bullock, 2nd Lieutenant.
Dead. A commander; well-meaning and droll.
Chas. Stewart [or Stuart], 3rd Lieutenant.
Dead [1814]. A post captain [1796]; gouty and proud.
Nisbet Palmer, 4th Lieutenant.
Dead [1811]. He commanded the Alacrity, an 18-gun brig, in the Mediterranean, and was captured by a French brig of the same force. In the action Captain Palmer was wounded and died soon after. James in his Naval History [v. 248 seq.] gives a sad account of this. He says, ‘Capt. Palmer was only wounded in the finger, that he ordered the colours to be struck to an enemy of equal force, and that his death was occasioned by a locked jaw.’ In justice to the memory of Captain Palmer it must be recollected that the Alacrity was weakly manned—a great number of her crew being absent in prizes. The Yankee historian must have known this, but he had not the generosity to state it. [James does state it; but nevertheless comments very severely on the conduct of Palmer; not unmindful, perhaps, of the fact that by the death of the captain, he was commanding officer of the Berwick when captured on March 7, 1795.]
Thomas Shirley, 5th Lieutenant.
Dead. Half mad, but good-natured.