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BOYCE—BOYD—BOYES. period until the general exchange in 1814; since which period he has not been employed.

 BOYCE. 

entered the Navy in 1833; passed his examination 11 July, 1840; and served for nearly four years, as Mate, on the North America and West India station, in the 52, and  72, flag-ships of Sir Thos. Harvey and Sir Chas. Adam. He obtained his commission 1 Sept. 1845, and has since been on half-pay.

 BOYCE. 

entered the Navy, in Dec. 1792, as Lieutenant’s Servant, on board the 74, Capt. Robt. Linzee, on the Mediterranean station, where, in 1794, he served with the same officer in the 98. In May, 1797, after an unemployed interval of more than two years, he became Midshipman of the 64, Capts. R. Parker and E. Bass, and in that ship proceeded with convoy to St. Helena, He subsequently joined, in succession, the and, Lieut.-Commanders Wm. Hargood and Wm. Stag, lying at Portsmouth – 98, Capt. Jonathan Faulkner, sent, in the summer of 1799, to Lisbon in charge of convoy –  98, Capt. Thos. Wells, employed during the three following years in the Channel – 28, Capt. Micajah Malbon, off Newfoundland –  98, Capts. John Child Purvis, John Bowen, and Robt. Carthew Reynolds, one of the Channel fleet in 1803-4 – and 110, Capts. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin and John Whitby, also on the Home station. On 28 May, 1805, Mr. Boyce was made Lieutenant into the 74, Capt. Geo. Duff, which ship, after participating in the battle of Trafalgar, he left in March, 1806. He was next employed for a few weeks in the Impress Service at Folkestone; commanded, from 15 Jan. 1808, to 24 Dec. 1811, the, On the Plymouth station; and, from May to Dec. 1813, served in the 64, Lieut.-Commander Stephen Donovan, prison-ship at Portsmouth. He has not since been afloat.

Lieut. Boyce was presented in 1812, in consequence of a serious injury he had received in the eye, with a gratuity of 91l. 5s., but was refused a pension.

 BOYCE. 

entered the Navy, 29 Jan. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, bearing the flag in the Channel of Vice-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough, with whom, after removing to the 110, he proceeded, in Nov. of the same year, to the Mediterranean, as Midshipman of the  100. He was afterwards successively transferred – in Aug. 1808, to the 38, Capt. John Wentworth Loring, employed in the West Indies and off Havre de Grace – in Nov. 1810, into the  36, Capt. Hen. Vansittart, on the Irish station, where he assisted in taking, 11 Oct. 1811, Le Vice-Amiral Martin, of 18 guhs and 140 men, a notorious privateer – in July, 1812, to the 36, Capts. Wm. Wolrige and Phipps Hornby, cruizing off Cherbourg – and, in Jan. 1813, and April, 1814, to the 64, and  74, flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope. From 24 March, 1815, until paid off in Feb. 1816, Mr. Boyce, who had been awarded a commission on 15 Feb. in the former year, next served on the Cape station in the 16, Capt. Geo. Tyler. He obtained a command in the Coast Guard 6 May, 1834, and retained it until shortly previous to his appointment, 22 May, 1840, to the 72, Capts. John Clavell and Wm. Hen. Shirreff, guard-ship at Chatham. Since the close of 1843 he has been on half-pay.

Lieut. Boyce married, first, 19 Aug. 1818, Miss Anne Harrow, of Alton, who died 23 Jan. 1837; and, secondly, in 1838, Anne Helena, widow of Lieut. F. N. Price, R.A.

 BOYD. 

entered the Navy, 13 Jan. 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the, of 38 guns and 204 men, Capt. Geo. Wm. Augustus Courtenay, and on 31 July following, when off New Jersey, participated, as Midshipman, in a close-fought action of two hours with the French frigate Embuscade, of 38 guns and 327 men, which terminated in a loss to the British of 10 men, including their Captain, killed, and 24 wounded, and to the enemy of 50 killed and wounded. He continued thenceforward to serve with Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris in the same ship, and the 32, until wrecked on Rota Point, near Cadiz, 12 April, 1798. We then find him joining the 110, bearing the flag of Earl St. Vincent, by whom, in the following Oct., he was promoted into the  74, Capt. Hen. D’Esterre Darby, employed in the Mediterranean. Being officially promoted on 30 May, 1800, and appointed with Capt. Darby to the 74, Mr. Boyd, in July, 1801, took part in Sir Jas. Saumarez’s actions off Algesiras and Cadiz. His subsequent appointments were – 9 Nov. 1803, to the 38, Capt. Hon. John Murray – in 1804-5-6) to the, , and , flag-ships on the Jamaica station of Vice-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres – next, to the command of the ’s tender, the  schooner, in which, when in company with another vessel, he captured, after a running fight, the Spanish privater Juliana, of 5 guns and 83 men, 27 Dec. 1807 – 12 March, 1808, and 28 July, 1813, to the command, on the West India and North American stations, of the  and  schooners – and, 1 Oct. 1814, to the Acting-command of the  sloop. He was confirmed to the latter vessel 7 Feb. 1815, but went on half-pay in the following Sept., and has not since been employed.

Commander Boyd is Senior of 1815. – Frederick Dufaur.

 BOYD. 

entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 12 June, 1839; served, as Mate, on the Mediterranean station, in the 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, and and  steamers, Capts. Hon. Swynfen Thos. Carnegie and Fred. Warden; and, while in the former ship, was employed on shore at the taking, in 1840, of Caiffa and Tsour, on the coast of Syria, where he also beheld the fall of St. Jean d’Acre. At Caiffa, in particular, he appears to have assisted in planting the Ottoman flag on the ramparts. He obtained his commission 28 May, 1845; and, with the exception of a short attachment in the same year to the 120, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Chas. Rowley, has since been on half-pay.

 BOYD. 

entered the Navy 28 Sept. 1825; passed his examination 14 May, 1832; took part, we believe, in an expedition to the Niger; served for some time, as Senior Mate, on board the 110, and  120, flag-ships at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Codrington; and obtained his commission 23 Nov. 1841. He rejoined the on 17 of the following month; and from 7 March, 1842, imtll paid off in 1846, was next employed, latterly as First-Lieutenant, in the  50, flag-ship at the Cape of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy. He is at present unemployed. – Case and Loudonsack.

 BOYES. 

entered the Navy, 1 May, 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capts. Edm. Crawley, Hen. Inman, Chas. Cobb, and Manley Dixon, and soon afterwards attained the rating of Midshipman. Under the last-named officer he took<section end="Boyes, Henry" />