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GOODE—GOODING—GOODLAD—GOODRIDGE—GOOLD. to the 74, Capt. Edw. Harvey – and, 12 Feb. 1842, to the command of the steamer. He attained the rank he now holds 7 May, 1842; and from 27 Oct. 1843, until the commencement of 1847, had command of the 16, on the coast of Africa. – Joseph Woodhead.

 GOODE. 

entered the Navy, 13 May, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 54, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg, stationed in the Mediterranean; where, until the conclusion of hostilities, he also served in the 48, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, 32, Capts. Henry Whitby and Thos. Garth, and 74, flag-ship of Sir John Gore. On 13 March, 1811, he had the fortune to enact a part in the memorable action off Lissa, when a British squadron, carrying in the whole 156 guns and 879 men, completely routed, after a conflict of six hours, and a loss to the (in which frigate he was at the time serving) of 13 killed and 41 wounded, a Franco-Venetian armament consisting of 284 guns and 655 men; and he appears to have been subsequently very severely burnt while endeavouring to extinguish a fire on board La Corona, one of the prizes taken on that occasion. After an attachment of a few months to the 38, Capt. Chas. Sotheby, and 98, flag-ship at Spithead of Sir Rich. Bickerton, Mr. Goode was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 16 Feb. 1815. He has not since been afloat.

Lieut. Goode is at present Deputy-Postmaster in Canada. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 GOODING. 

entered the Navy, in Dec. 1795, as Midshipman, on board the 64, Capts. Edm. Crawley and Manley Dixon. On 15 July, 1798, being off Carthagena, he took part in a brilliant action between the and four Spanish frigates of 42 guns each, which terminated in the surrender of one of the latter, the Santa Dorothea. During the afterpart of the French Revolutionary war Mr. Gooding served under Capt. Dixon in the and  74’s, also on the Mediterranean station. On the renewal of hostilities in 1803 he joined the 74, bearing the broad pendant off Martinique of Sir Sam. Hood, by whom, in Oct. of the same year, he was appointed to the command, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the schooner. In that vessel, to which he was confirmed 20 Nov. 1805, he continued to serve until May, 1806. He then removed to the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Alex. Cochrane, but being soon afterwards again invested with the command of a schooner, the, he joined in a successful expedition against a nest of privateers located at Batabano, in Cuba, and was likewise a participator in the Bueno-Ayrean operations of 1807. In June, 1809, Mr. Gooding was appointed to the 74, Capt. Jas. Bissett, under whom he accompanied the expedition to the Walchcren, whence, after the reduction of Flushing, he invalided. His last appointments were – between 1810 and 1813, to the 10, Capt. Booty Harvey, and to the First-Lieutenancy of several line-of-battle ships, bearing the flag on the Baltic and Brazilian stations of his old Captain, Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon – and, 28 Nov. 1823, to the command of the  packet, which he retained until paid off 18 Oct. 1832. He assumed the rank of Retired Commander 18 April, 1838.

 GOODLAD. 

entered the Navy, 2 March, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capts.Wm. O’Brien Drury, Sir Thos. Williams, and Thos. Fras. Fremantle, under the latter of whom he fought, as Midshipman, at Trafalgar, 21 Oct. . In Dec. 1806 he removed to the 98, Capt. Thos. Bertie, and while afterwards attached, from 1808 to 1810, to the and, flag-ships of Sir Alex. Cochrane, he assisted at the reduction of Martinique and Guadeloupe. During the remaining portion of the war we find him successively serving, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, in the frigate,  74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas,  64, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis,  74, Capt. Joshua Sidney Horton,  74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral T. F. Fremantle, and, as Lieutenant (commission dated 22 Jan. 1814), in the  74, Capt. Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas. Under the latter officer Mr, Goodlad, in 1813-14, witnessed the capture of Port d’Anzo, the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, the reduction of the fortress of Santa Maria, and of the enemy’s other forts and defences in the Gulf of Spezia, and the fall of Genoa. He was afterwards employed in the 98,  100, and  20, Capts. Fred. Lewis Maitland, Chas. Inglis, and Alex. Renton Sharpe, on the Cork and Home stations; and, being then placed on half-pay, was not again employed until appointed, 23 June, 1823, to the 82, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling, in which ship he served on the South American station, until paid off in June, 1827. Since that period (with the exception of two years, from 14 April, 1836, to 10 April, 1838, during which he officiated as Agent for Transports Afloat) Lieut. Goodlad has not been employed. – Hallett and Robinson.

 GOODRIDGE. 

entered the Navy, 26 July, 1808, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the 98, Capt. Sir Chas. Hamilton, bearing the flag afterwards, in the Baltic and off the Port of Cadiz, of Rear-Admirals Manley Dixon and Fras. Pickmore, in which ship he continued to serve, the last 18 months as Midshipman, until March, 1811. Joining then the, 36, Capt. Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, he took part, on 1 of the following May, and was wounded, in a very gallant action of an hour and a half in Sagone Bay, where that frigate, in company with the 38, and  18, effectually destroyed the two armed store-ships Giraffe and Nourrice, each mounting from 20 to 30 guns, and protected by a 5-gun battery, a martello tower, and a body of about 200 regular troops. He also, on 29 Nov. in the same year, assisted in capturing, after a severe running fight of four hours, the 26-gun store-ship La Persanne, who, until the moment of her surrender, had been taken for a frigate. In Jan. 1813, Mr. Goodridge removed for a few months to the sloop, Capt. Jas. Wemyss, but then rejoined the, and continued to serve in that frigate until transferred, in Oct. 1814, to the 24, Capt. Watkin Owen Pell. On his return home from North America, in Jan. 1817, he joined the Coast Blockade, as Midshipman of the 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch; under whom he remained until promoted 16 Aug. 1819. Mr. Goodridge – who appears to have been again employed in the same service, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant, from 12 May, 1829, to Sept. 1830, of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – has been in charge, since 6 Dec. 1841, of a station in the Coast Guard.

 GOOLD. 

, born 31 March, 1786, is only son of Hugh Goold, Esq., Purser, R.N., who served in that capacity on board the 60, Capt. John Holloway, at the relief of Gibraltar in 1782, was afterwards the first to establish the Navy Agency business at Portsmouth, and ultimately died in the year 1787.

This officer entered the Navy, 16 Aug. 1800, as Midshipman, on board the 54, Capt. Geo. Clarke, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Rear-Admiral John Holloway; and, on next joining the 50, Capt. Jas. Walker, took part in the battle of Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801. From the following July until Oct. 1806 wo find him serving