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DABINE—DACRE—DACRES. carronades and 31 men. – and, 23 April, 1813, to the 74, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope. He has been on haif-pay since 2 April, 1816.

Lieut. Cutler at present fills the post of British Vice-Consul at Bordeaux. He married, 27 Sept. 1827, Clara Eliza, youngest daughter of the late John Chas. Lucena, Esq., Consul-General from the court of Portugal.



DABINE. 

was born at Glastonbury, co. Somerset.

This officer entered the Navy 29 Oct. 1800, as L.M., on board the 74, Capts. Herbert Sawyer and Wm. Cuming, one of Lord Nelson’s victorious fleet in the battle off Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801; after which he joined the 74, guard-ship at Spithead, and became, 11 June, 1804, Midshipman of the  98, Capts. H. Sawyer and Robt. Carthew Reynolds, employed on the Home station. Removing, as Master’s Mate, in April, 1807, to the 18, Capts. Eras. Beauman and Jas. Murray Gordon, he attended the expedition against Copenhagen under Lord Gambier, and subsequently proceeded to the East Indies, where he passed his examination in May, 1809, and was promoted, from his old ship the, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury, to the Acting First-Lieutenancy, 25 Sept. following, of the 20, Capt. Rich. Spencer. After assisting, 19 Feb. 1810, at the capture of Amboyna, Mr. Dabine was transferred to the (afterwards ) 50, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild and Henry Drury, in time to command a detachment of seamen at the reduction of the Mauritius, and further aid at the taking of Java; off which island he captured, 21 Sept. 1811, with three of the ’s boats under his orders, the French schooner Marie, carrying 2 twelve-pounder carronades, 24 stand of arms, and 12 men. His commission as Lieutenant being confirmed 8 May, 1812, he was afterwards, until placed on half-pay, in Oct. 1816, appointed – 1 Nov. 1812, to the 16, Capts. Geo. Gustavus Lennock and Edw. Lloyd, in the North Sea – 11 May, 1815, to the command of the Telegraph Station at New Cross – and, 13 Sept. 1815, and 11 Aug. 1816, to the 20, Capt. G. G. Lennock, and  16, Capt. Geo. Bennet Allen, on the Jamaica station. Since Sept. 1820, Lieut. Dabine has been almost uninterruptedly employed in the Coast Guard.

He married Miss F. Carpenter, of Bridport, co. Dorset, and has six children. – Messrs. Ommauney.

 DACRE. 

entered the Navy, in March, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, Capt. Lawrence Wm. Halsted, and, on proceeding to the Mediterranean, assisted at the capture, 3 Aug. and 2 Sept. 1801, of the French frigates Carrière, Succès, and Bravoure. He next joined the, of 48 guns, Capt. Jahleel Brenton, and was a Midshipman on board that vessel when she took the ground under the batteries of Cherbourg, and was compelled, after a sanguinary but ineffectual resistance of several hours, to strike her colours, 2 July, 1803. On regaining his liberty in May, 1809, Mr. Dacre became attached to the brig, Capt. Chas. Fred. Payne, then in the Mediterranean, and on 10 July following, having returned to Sheerness, he was officially promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He was subsequently appointed, on the Home station – 12 July, 1809, to the 10, Capt. Edw. O’Brien Drury – 14 Jan. 1811, to the 32, Capt. Robt. Cathcart – and, 26 April, 1814, to the 12, Capt. Geo. Truscott. Since Sept. 1615, he has been on half-pay. – Holmes and Folkard.

 DACRES. 

is only surviving son of the late Jas. Rich. Dacres, Esq., Vice-Admiral of the Red, by Miss Eleanor Blandford Pearce, of Cambridge; nephew of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Rich. Dacres, G.C.H.; and first-cousin of

This officer entered the Navy, in 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, commanded by his father, Capt. J. R. Dacres, with whom we find him also, in 1797, serving in the  98. From Aug. 1800, until the receipt of his first commission, which bears date 15 Nov. 1804, he further officiated, chiefly on the Home station, as Midshipman of the 74, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, 38, Capt. Chas. Cunningham, 74, Capt. Bendall Robt. Littlehales, 74, Capt. Nash,  38, Capt. John Maitland, and  74, Capt. Barrington Dacres. During that period he attended, when in the, the expedition against Ferrol in Aug. 1800, and was present, in the , in a short action with the French 74-gun ship Duguay Trouin, 29 Aug. 1803. After performing the duties, for seven months, of Flag-Lieutenant in the and  74’s, to his father, then Commander-in-Chief on the Jamaica station, Mr. Dacres was promoted, 5 July, 1805, to the command of the  sloop, from which he appears to have been posted, 14 Jan. 1806, into the, of 24 guns. On 14 Feb. 1807, he captured, off the island of St. Domingo, the French national schooner Dauphin, of 3 guns and 71 men; and he then, associating himself with Capt.Wm. Furlong Wise, of the 32, succeeded by a well-conducted stratagem in approaching, through a most difficult navigation, the fort of Samana, a notorious nest for privateers, which, after a cannonade of four hours, and a loss to the British of 2 men killed and 16 wounded, was ultimately stormed and carried with great gallantry by the boats of the two ships under Lieuts. Henry Loraine Baker, John Norton, and Shaw. On his return to England in the, Capt. Dacres, in Dec. 1807, was placed on half-pay; and from that period we do not again find him afloat until appointed, 16 March, 1811, to the , an old worn-out frigate, carrying 48 guns, yielding a broadside weight of 517 lbs., and 244 men. On 19 Aug. 1812, being on her way to Halifax after a very long cruize, this vessel encountered and came to close action with the United States ship Constitution, of 56 guns, throwing a broadside weight of 768 lbs., and 460 men. After nobly struggling with her huge antagonist for nearly an hour and three quarters, the, having lost 15 men killed and 63 wounded, and being rendered quite ungovernable, with the loss of all her masts, was at length obliged to surrender – in so shattered a condition, indeed, that on the following morning she was set on fire, and blown up. The Constitution’s loss on the occasion amounted to at least 7 men killed and as many wounded. Among the badly wounded on board the was her gallant defender, Capt. Dacres himself, who received a musket-ball in the back, while standing on the starboard forecastle hammocks animating his crew, but who could