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DREW.  near the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, and also of the shipping in Aix Roads. He then accompanied Rear-Admiral Wm. Albany Otway to the Scheldt, and, after the fall of Flushing, was confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 22 Aug. 1809. Invaliding in the following Oct., he remained on half-pay until appointed, 28 Jan. 1812, First of the troop-ship, Capts. John Tailour and Robt. Ramsay. While afterwards on the coast of America, Mr. Drane saw a good deal of active boat-service in the Chesapeake, and was present at the attack on Baltimore. He again invalided 25 Sept. 1814; and has not since been employed.

He was admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 9 July, 1842.

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was born 27 Nov. 1792.

This officer entered the Navy, 4 May, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capt. John Phillimore. Under that officer he presently took part in an attack made by Commodore Owen on the Boulogne flotilla – was afterwards employed in convoying two transports to the timely relief of the town of Colberg, then obstinately defended by the celebrated Blucher – and, when at the siege of Copenhagen in Aug. 1807, assisted in the ’s gallant defeat of a flotilla of 16 gun-vessels sent for the express purpose of capturing her. After bringing home the despatches relative to the surrender of the Danish capital, and participating in one or two special services, Mr. Drew ofiiciated for upwards of two years, as Midshipman, in the 38, Capt. Edw. Brace, 36, Capt. Henry Vansittart, and  74, Capts. J. Phillimore and Graham Moore – in which latter ship he attended the expedition to the Walcheren in Aug. 1809. Rejoining Capt. Phillimore, in July, 1810, on board the troop-ship, he was next employed in active co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, until his removal, in June, 1813, to the  of 46 guns and 320 men, commanded by the same Captain. In that ship, after witnessing the capture of La Trave French frigate, Mr. Drew shared, on 25 Feb. 1814, in a destructive action of two hours and ten minutes with La Clorinde, mounting 44 guns and 12 brass swivels, with a complement of 360 picked men, of whom 120 were killed and wounded, with a loss to the British of 20 slain and 40 wounded. Having passed his examination two years previously, he was promoted for his conduct on the occasion to the rank of Lieutenant, 4 March following, and re-appointed to the – from which, however, he invalided, 6 Feb. 1815. Mr. Drew afterwards joined – 15 Dec. 1818, the 26, Capts. Geo. Wiokens Willes and Peter Fisher, on the Home station – and, 21 March, 1823, as First-Lieutenant, the 46, commanded by his old Captain, Sir John Phillimore. Proceeding to the coast of Africa, he there took an active part in the Ashantee hostilities at Cape Coast Castle, where he landed in command of the seamen and marines, and assisted at the final overthrow of the enemy, on 11 July, 1824. For these services he was rewarded, on the return home of the, with the rank of Commander, by commission dated 19 Oct. in the same year. When afterwards in Canada, Capt. Drew materially aided in quelling the rebellion in that country, by the destruction, in Dec. 1837, of the Caroline steamer, which vessel he cut out from under Fort Schlosser, on the American side of the Niagara, and sent flaming over the Great Falls of that river! In admiration of this exploit, the Governor, and the two Houses of Parliament of Upper Canada, returned him their united thanks; and he was immediately appointed Commodore of the Provincial Marine. From Oct. 1838, until Aug. 1839, Capt. Drew, in the hired armed steamer, held the chief command on Lake Erie, for the purpose of resisting any intended attacks on the part of the rebels. His last appointment was to the command, 6 Oct. 1842, of the 16, on the West India station, where he received the thanks of Sir Chas. Adam, the Commander-in-Chief, for discovering and accurately surveying a dangerous shoal, now known upon the Admiralty charts as “Drew’s Rock,” lying in the direct Channel between the islands of Tobago and Trinidad, with only 17 feet water upon it. Since his Post-promotion, 16 June, 1843, Capt. Drew has been on half-pay.

He married, 17 March, 1832, Mary, daughter of the late Thos. Henderson, Esq., of Longbrough, co. Cumberland, by whom he has issue five sons and one daughter. – Messrs. Stilwell.

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was born 7 Dec. 1792, at Forleigh, near St. Columb, co. Cornwall.

This officer entered the Navy, 2 Aug. 1806, as A.B., on board the 74, Capt. Sir Fras. Laforey, whom he ultimately accompanied, as Midshipman, to the Mediterranean. From Dec. 1809, to Oct. 1811, he served, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the 18, Capts. Robt. Brown Tom and David Braimer, on the Downs station; and then joined the 74, bearing at first the flag of Sir F. Laforey in the West Indies, and afterwards commanded by Capt. Robt. Barrie. Participating, under the latter officer, in the contest with the United States, Mr. Drew commanded the ’s launch – at the destruction of the Adams frigate – in the several attacks on the Baltimore flotilla, for which he received the public thanks of Rear-Admiral Cockburn – at the reduction of the towns in the Rappahaunoc River – and at the capture of the fort at Point Petre, and of the town of St. Mary’s, on the coast of Georgia. He left the in Aug. 1815, having been awarded a commission on 1 of the previous March; and since 16 Dec. 1831 – with the exception of a three years’ command, from March, 1837, to March, 1840, of the  revenue-vessel – has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.

Lieut. Drew married, in Sept. 1825, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Hosken Hawker, Esq., of St. Columb, co. Cornwall; and has issue four daughters.

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, born 26 Dec. 1803, at Devonport, is younger brother of

This officer entered the Navy, in 1812, as a Volunteer, on board the 100, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, attached to the fleet in the Mediterranean. He afterwards served under the same officer, and Capts. Theobald Jones and Sir Thos. John Cochrane, in the 74,  80,  84,  74,  brig, and  44, on the Cape, Home, and West India stations. Passing his examination in Feb. 1823, he became successively Mate – of the, , , and 74’s, commanded in the river Medway by Capts. Thos. Jas, Maling and Joshua Sydney Horton – of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, employed on the Coast Blockade – and, on the South American station, of the 50, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend, 28, Capt. Chas. Graham, 18, Capt. John Jas. Onslow, and 76, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Thos. Baker. After 13 years’ servitude as Mate, Mr. Drew was at length promoted, from the steamer, Lieut.-Commander John Middleton Waugh, to an Additional-Lieutenancy, 6 July, 1836, in the  50, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Eden Hamond, also in South America; where he subsequently joined, 3 March and 3 July, 1837, the, and  26, Capts. Henry Wm. Bruce and Hon. Geo. Grey. In the latter vessel we eventually find him escorting the Marquess of Clanricarde as Ambassador to St. Petersburgh. He afterwards commanded the, , and brigs, on the Halifax