Page:A Naval Biographical Dictionary.djvu/1111

Rh the Mediterranean; where he removed with the same officer, as Master’s Mate, in Sept. 1798, to the 80 (late Franklin), one of the prizes taken by Lord Nelson at the battle of the Nile. Joining next, in Sept. 1799, the 38, Capts. Jas. Young and John Clarke Searle, he assisted in that ship, under Capt. Young, at the capture, 17 Oct. following, of the Spanish 36-gun frigate El Thetis, laden with specie to an enormous amount, and was wrecked, under Capt. Searle, on the Penmarck Rocks, 25 Dec. in the same year. He was then received on board the 32, Capts. Wm. Hall Gage and John Mackellar, employed at first on the Home station, where we find him, in July, 1800, present at the detention of the Freija Danish frigate, in consequence of a refusal on the part of her commander to allow the British to search a convoy under his orders. On proceeding afterwards to the East Indies, Mr. Snell, in the course of 1802, joined the 24, Capt. Chas. Malcolm. In June, 1804, at which period he had been serving for 12 months in the Channel in the 80, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Graves, he was nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Stokes. He had charge subsequently of a rocket-vessel in Sir Wm. Sidney Smith’s attack on the Boulogne flotilla; he was placed as Midshipman, in March, 1806, on board the 120, flag-ship of Lord St. Vincent in the Channel; and in the following May and June he became Acting-Lieutenant of the  98, Capt. Wm. Albany Otway, and 74, Commodore Rich. Goodwin Keats. To the latter ship he was confirmed by a commission dated 7 Nov. 1806. While engaged, in Sept. 1807, in the operations against Copenhagen, he was appointed to the 74, Capt. Thos. Graves. He was transferred afterwards to the 74, bearing the flags of Sir Chas. Cotton and Sir Wm. Sidney Smith off Lisbon and the Texel; and in March, 1809, he obtained command for four months of the gun-brig, in the Baltic. He returned eventually to the, and was one of the few belonging to that ship who were saved when she was lost off the Haak Sands 22 Dec. 1810. He remained a prisoner of war in France until the peace of 1814, and has not been since employed.

 SNELL. 

is brother of

This officer entered the Navy, 13 Aug. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Sir Wm. Geo. Fairfax and Sam. Hood; in which ship and the 38, Capt. Henry Digby, he continued employed in the Channel until July, 1801. In June, 1803, he became Midshipman of the 100, Captain, afterwards Rear-Admiral, the Earl of Northesk; and in June, 1806, after having fought at the battle of Trafalgar, he removed to the  40, Capts. Lord Wm. Stuart and John Hancock, stationed at first in the Channel and then in the Mediterranean; where he served as Master’s Mate, from Aug. 1808 until July, 1810, on board the 100, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough. He next, in Sept. 1810, joined the 120, Capts. Nash and John Chambers White; with the latter of whom, on returning to the Mediterranean, he removed, in Dec. of the same year, to the 74. In that ship, of which he was created an Acting and a confirmed Lieutenant 19 Oct. and 4 Dec. 1811, he co-operated in the defence of Tarragona. He left her in Jan. 1813, and was subsequently appointed – 19 March, 1813, to the 12, Capts. Chas. Hope Reid and Wm. Hotham, employed in the Baltic and Channel – 16 Nov. 1814, to the 18, Capts. C. H. Reid and Sam. Sison, stationed, until July, 1816, off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean – and 16 May, 1818, to the 18, also commanded by Capt. Reid, with whom he served on the coast of Scotland until paid off in Oct. 1821. He has not, we believe, been since afloat. – Burnett and Holmes.

 SNELLGROVE. 

was born 1 Sept. 1782, and died in 1848.

This officer (who had been wrecked in 1798 in the transport, and had co-operated in the  Indiaman in the attack upon Seringapatam) entered the Navy, 8 July, 1803, as A.B., on board the  74, Capts. Geo. Martin, Michael Seymour, and Jas. Nicoll Morris. In the course of the following month he attained the rating of Midshipman; and he continued in the, cruizing off the coasts of France, Spain, and Portugal, until after the battle of Trafalgar. In consequence of several injuries he there sustained, he was presented with a gratuity from the Patriotic Fund. From Dec. 1805 until May, 1809, he served, nearly the whole time in the West Indies, in the 74, Capt. John Harvey, and  40, Capt. Alex. Skene. He then joined the sloop, Capt. John Evans, at Bermuda; and on 18 of the following July, having just completed his time, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the  24, Capt. Jas. Bradshaw. From that vessel, which had been stationed in the West Indies and North America, he was superseded 20 April, 1811. He was officially promoted 1 Aug. in the same year; and was lastly, from 20 March, 1812, until 12 June, 1815, employed in the Mediterranean, and again off the coast of America in the 38, armée en flûte, Capts. John Thompson and Wm. Stanhope Badcock (now Lovell). While in that ship he was lent, at first, to the Cadiz flotilla; and was present afterwards at the sieges of the Col de Balaguer and Tarragona, the destruction of Commodore Barney’s flotilla up the Patuxent, the capture of Washington, and the attack upon Baltimore. From constant exposure in boats his health suffered very materially.

 SNEYD. 

, born in Feb. 1773, at Bishton, near Rugeley, Staffordshire, is second surviving son of the late John Sneyd, Esq., at one time of Bishton and afterwards of Belmont, by his first wife Penelope, eldest daughter of Thos. Kynnersley, Esq., of Loxley Park, co. Stafford; and brother (with the present Wm. Sneyd, Esq., of Ashcombe, co. Stafford) of Lieut. Ralph Sneyd, R.N., who died 7 March, 1805.

This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1786, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 44, Capt. Jas. Vashon, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Alan Gardner, with whom he served his time in the West Indies and Channel in the same ship, and the 74. From the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 14 Oct. 1793 until Dec. 1795, he was employed in the sloop, Capt. John Doling, and  74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Peter Rainier, in the East Indies. He next, in Dec. 1796 and July, 1799, joined the 74, and  80, Capts. Arch. Dickson and Sir Henry Trollope, in the former of which ships he bore a warm part in the action off 11 Oct. 1797. After serving, as First-Lieutenant, with Capt. Jas. Walker in the 98, and with Capt. Wm. Selby in the 32 (the latter engaged at the bombardment of Granville in 1803), he was appointed, in the spring of 1804, to the  74, fitting for the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew, by whom, on their arrival in the East Indies, he was appointed Governor, with the rank of Acting-Commander, of the Hospital at Madras. He was confirmed a Commander 25 Sept. 1806; acted subsequently as Captain of the and  frigates; was appointed, 26 Oct. 1809, to the  14, on the Home station; and from 3 April, 1811 (the date of his Post commission), until 13 June, 1813, commanded the  20, on the coast of Portugal. While in the, and in charge of a China convoy, Capt. Sneyd, we are told, beat off the French frigate