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Rh STRONG. 

entered the Navy 10 March, 1813; passed his examination in 1822; and was made Lieutenant, 27 Nov. 1829, into the 44, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, on the South American station; whence he returned about the end of 1830. he has been in charge, since 14 Oct. 1836, of a station in the Coast Guard.

 STRONG. 

entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capts. Henry Digby, Sam. Sutton, Jas. Brisbane, John Ferris Devonshire, Robt. Lambert, and John Stiles; in which frigate he was for upwards of three years employed on the Channel, Baltic, and Newfoundland stations; and was present as Midshipman, under Capt. Sutton, in the action off Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801. Removing, in Jan. 1803, to 36, Capt. Geo. Wolfe, he assisted in that ship at the destruction, 12 July, 1804, on the coast of France, of La Charente of 20 and La Joie of 8 guns; united, too, in Aug. 1805, in Admiral Hon. Wm. Cornwallis’ pursuit of the French fleet into Brest; and took part in the ensuing Sept. in an action off Vigo, in which the, after an hour’s cannonade, captured one and defeated the rest of a flotilla of nine gun-boats by whom she had been attacked. In Oct. 1806 he was under the necessity of being sent to the hospital at Haslar, where he remained until March, 1807. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 19 Dec. following; and was subsequently appointed – 16 May, 1808, to the 18, Capts. Fras. Staufell and Hon. John Gore, employed on the Plymouth and West India stations – 4 July, 1810, to the brig, Capt. Edw. Scobell, with whom he returned home from the West Indies and was paid off 31 Aug. in the same year – 19 Aug. 1811, for about six weeks, to the sloop, Capt. Jas. Aberdour, lying in Hamoaze – 17 Feb. 1812, to the 74, Capt. Robt. Lambert, stationed off Flushing and in the Channel – and, 10 Dec. 1813, to the 18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott. In the he contributed, 11 Jan. 1810, to the capture, beneath the fire of a battery near Basseterre, after an engagement of two hours, productive of a loss to the British of only 4 wounded, of L’Oreste French national brig of 16 guns and 110 men, 2 of whom were killed and 10 wounded; and in the ensuing month he witnessed the reduction of Guadeloupe. While attached to the, Mr. Strong, besides participating in much general service, was present, 12 March, 1814, in a mistaken action with the King’s Packet, which occasioned the former a loss of 1 man killed and 12 wounded, and the packet of 2 passengers killed and 10 or 11 other persons wounded. He also, 25 Aug. 1814, aided in destroying, off the Savannah river, the American privateer Pike of 13 guns and a complement of 85 men, 47 of whom were on board. Since the was paid off, about Aug. 1815, he has not been afloat. – Collier and Snee.

 STRONG. 

entered the Navy, 18 July, 1794, as Midshipman, on board the 98, Capts. Thos. Bourmaster, Alex. Graeme, Theophilus Jones, Geo. Grey, Jas. Brine, and Thos. Wells; with whom he continued employed in the Channel, on the coast of Ireland, and in the Mediterranean, until transferred, in Aug. 1801, to the 98, flag-ship in the Channel of Vice-Admiral Jas. Gambier. He served next, from June, 1802, until March, 1805, in the 36, Capt. John Wood, in the East Indies; and he then joined the  alias  36, Capts. Jas. Giles Vashon and Walter Bathurst. On 20 Jan. 1806 the latter frigate had 1 man killed and her hull much damaged by the fire of Fort Canonnier, to which she was exposed during 20 minutes, without being able to return a single gun. She subsequently, while stationed in the Baltic, made prize of the Russian cutter Apith of 14 guns and 61 men, 4 of whom were killed and 8 wounded, with the loss to the British of 1 man killed; and in July, 1809, she accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren. In the following Oct. Mr. Strong, who had obtained the rating of Master’s Mate, was received in that capacity on board the 120, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Fras. Pickmore at Cadiz; where, on 18 July, 1810, he was confirmed a Lieutenant, a few weeks after he had been ordered to act as such, in the bomb, Capts. John Bowker and John Fordyce Maples. From that vessel, which appears to have been very warmly engaged in the defence of Cadiz, he removed, 27 Jan. 1811, to the 16, Capts. J. Bowker, Chas. Shaw, Fairfax Moresby, Edw. Boxer, and Walter Croker. Under Capt. Moresby he was active in the suppression of piracy in the Grecian Archipelago, aided in making several prizes, was present at the reduction of Trieste, and went through much general service. He was paid off in Oct. 1815; and has not been since employed.

 STROUD. 

entered the Navy, 2 Nov. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Thos. Baker and Henry Rich. Glynn. In that ship, in which he continued until transferred, in Aug. 1811, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in July, 1810), to the 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon, he was very fully engaged in affording security, during their passage through the Baltic, to various British and Swedish convoys; was in almost daily collision with the Danes, either in destroying their trade or in chasing their gun-boats; and on one occasion aided in repelling, with considerable loss to the enemy, the attack of a large flotilla. He saw, likewise, much boat-service. On his return in the from the Baltic, he removed, in Feb. 1812, to the  74, fitting for the flag of Rear-Admiral Dixon, who had been appointed to the chief- command on the coast of Brazil; where he continued actively employed until the summer of 1815 in the  42, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon,  18, Capt. Joseph Patey, and  74, bearing the flag of Admiral Dixon, and took part in the various operations occasioned by the war with the United States. In the in particular he aided, in Dec. 1814, in chasing the True-Blooded Yankee a mischievous privateer of 18 guns, into St. Salvador, where she was kept closely blockaded until sold to defray the expenses of her stay. He returned to England in July, 1815, in the ; and in the ensuing Aug., at which period he was serving at Plymouth in the 98, flag-ship of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission dated back to 9 of the preceding March. His succeeding appointments were, 8 June, 1824, and 5 March, 1825, to the 74 and  42, Coast Blockade ships, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye; and, as First-Lieutenant – 21 Sept. 1825, to the 20, Capt. John Furneaux, equipping for the East Indies – 18 March, 1829 (on the latter vessel being sold), to the, a new 46-gun frigate just launched at Bombay, which was brought home by Capt. Furneaux and the officers and crew of the , and paid off, in Nov. of the same year – 25 Feb. 1830, to the  46, Commodore Arthur Farquhar, with whom he served on the North America and West India station until paid off on his return to England in Nov. 1833 – and 3 April, 1837, to the  84, Capt. Wm. Fisher. While on her passage through the West Indies to join the Admiral, Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, at Halifax, the was caught in a hurricane and for 18 hours was so pressed down upon her beam-ends as to be altogether unmanageable. On reaching her destination under a jury-rig, it was found necessary to subject her to nearly a thorough refit, including even a new bowsprit and new lower masts. During the insurrection of 1831-2 on the north side of the island of Jamaica, Mr. Stroud was for several weeks 