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BRINE—BRISBANE—BRITTAIN—BRITTON—BROAD. BRINE. 

John Brine is, we presume, a relative of

This officer entered the Navy in 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Jas. Brine, and in April, 1800, became Midshipman of the 64, Capts. John Bligh, Geo. Fred. Ryves, and Thos. Briggs, flag-ship, at first of Sir Chas. Morice Pole, Commander-in-Chief at Newfoundland. While under Capt. Ryves he escorted General Graham and the 25th Regt. to Egypt in 1801, and was afterwards present at the surrender of Corfu. On 8 April, 1805, Mr. Brine was advanced to be Sub-Lieutenant of the gun-brig, Lieut.Commander John Goldie, stationed off Jersey and the coast of France. He became a full Lieutenant 22 Jan. 1806; and was subsequently appointed – 6 March following, to the 64, Capts. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy and Wm. Cuming, lying at Plymouth – next, to the 98, Capt. Wm. Albany Otway, and 36, Capt. Brodie, both employed in the Channel – 31 May, 1808, to the  frigate, Capt. Jas. Carthew, under whom he witnessed the reduction of Martinique in Feb. 1809 – 20 Dec. in the same year, to the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Alex. Cochrane, also in the West Indies, where he served at the capture of Guadeloupe in Feb. 1810 – and, 16 Feb. 1811, having been on half-pay from the preceding May, to the 38, Capt. Sam. Campbell Rowley, in which ship he was wrecked on the Govivas rock, in the Teigneuse passage, 31 Jan. 1812. He was detained a prisoner at Verdun from that period until Aug. 1814, and has not since been afloat. Commander Brine accepted his present rank 17 July, 1838. – J. Hinxman.

 BRISBANE. 

, born 11 March, 1806, is only surviving son of the late gallant Rear-Admiral Sir Chas. Brisbane, K.C.B., the hero of Curaçoa, by Sarah, daughter of Sir Jas. Patey, Kt., of Reading, co. Berks. He is nephew of Sir Jas. Brisbane, who officiated as Captain of Lord Exmouth’s flag-ship at the battle of Algiers, and died from the effects of disease contracted while employed in the chief command of the naval force attached to the expedition against the Burmese, 19 Dec. 1826 – of Capt. John Douglas Brisbane, drowned in 1782 – of Lieut.-Colonel Thos. Stewart Brisbane, killed at St. Domingo in 1795 – and of Capt.Wm. Henry Brisbane, R.N., who died in 1796.

This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1819, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 42, Capt. Thos. Huskisson, on the West India station, and afterwards became attached in succession, as Midshipman and Mate, to the 42, Capt. Fras. Newcombe – 104, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Geo. Martin – 10, Capt. John Powney, with whom he returned to the West Indies – and  yacht, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, in which he escorted the Queen of Wurtemberg from Antwerp to England, and H. B. H. the Lord High Admiral on a visit to the different naval arsenals. He was presented by the latter august personage with a hauling-down commission 11 Aug. 1827; after which he appears to have been employed, from 1 March, 1828, until paid off in 1830, in the 10, Capt. Hon. Thos. Best – also, as First Lieutenant, in the 26, Capt. Geo. Wm. Courtenay – and in the 50, bearing the flag of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming – all on the Jamaica station. He was advanced to his present rank 10 Jan. 1837; and, on 14 Nov. 1843, was appointed to the 18, on the coast of Africa. While in command of the latter sloop, Capt. Brisbane succeeded in effecting the capture of two Brazilian slave-vessels. On one occasion he proceeded up the river Gallinas in charge of a division of boats, and, although opposed by the fire of 400 of the natives, had the good fortune to destroy the towns of Minna, Tindor, and Leah; and, on another, he led a second detachment of boats up the same pestilential stream for the purpose of attacking the city of Ghindemar, which place, although hostilities were eventually rendered unnecessary, he contrived to reach after having been compelled to cut his way through trees and other obstacles that had been thrown into the river to impede his progress. Since the attainment of his present rank, 9 Nov. 1846, he has been on half-pay.

Capt. Brisbane married, 27 Aug. 1834, Elizabeth, fourth daughter of the late John Ryley, Esq., of Hertford House, near Coventry, and by that lady has issue one daughter.

 BRITTAIN. 

was born 24 Nov. 1801.

This officer entered the Navy, 13 Jan. 1813, as a Volunteer, on board the 74, and until 1817 served, latterly as Midshipman, in the  74,  22, Capt. Jas. Green, and 78, Capt. Jas. Walker. From to 1824 he discharged the duties of Mate, in the cutter, Lieut.-Commander Henry Smith Wilson, and in the  74, and  120, flag-ships of Sir Benj. Hallowell, at the Nore. Between the date of his quitting the and of his advancement to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Oct. 1829, Mr. Brittain (who had passed his examination in 1821) was further employed on board the  cutter, Lieut.-Commander Joseph Rich. Raggett Webb, at the Nore – 23, Capt. John Wm. Montagu, in the East Indies – 52, flag-ship on the same station of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen – and 28, Capt. Chas. Howe Fremantle, at the Cape of Good Hope. He joined the Coast-Guard 30 Dec. 1831; and since 17 Jan. 1846, has been in command of the Revenue-vessel.

Lieut. Brittain married, 29 Aug. 1832, Miss Busby.

 BRITTON. 

was born 20 March, 1781. This officer entered the Navy (into which he was impressed), 20 Dec. 1800, as Ordinary, on board the 20, Capt. Thos. Philpot, on the West India station; removed in May, 1801, to the 38, Capts. Chas. Sydney Davers and Rich. Hussey Moubray, with whom he served four years in the Mediterranean; then joined, as A.B., the 74, Capts. Wm. Lechmere and John Talbot; and, in the course of 1805, was present in Sir Robert Calder’s action, Lord Nelson’s pursuit of the Franco-Spanish fleet to the West Indies, and ultimately in the battle of Trafalgar. He was also in the same ship at the defence of Gaeta and the passage of the Dardanells, besides participating in much active boat-service. In Nov. 1808, Mr. Britton joined the 10, Capt. Thos. Burton, and while in that vessel, in which he had attained the rank of Quarter-master, was wrecked on the Rundlestone rock, between Scilly and Land’s-End, in Feb. 1810. He immediately afterwards became Master’s Mate of the 18, Capts. T. Burton and Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, stationed in the Baltic and Channel; passed his examination 6 Feb. 1812; joined, in July following, the 74, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling, with whom he proceeded to the Mediterranean; and was promoted (from the 98, Capt. Robt Hall, lying at Plymouth) to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Feb. 1815. He has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Britton, who has been twice married, has issue six children.

 BROAD. 

passed his examination 1 Aug. 1832; was employed in the Coast Guard from 27 Dec. 1839, until advanced to the rank he now holds, 3 July, 1846; and, since 9 Nov. in the latter year, has been in command of the Revenue-vessel.

