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GRAMSHAW—GRANDY.  110, and 120, until after the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads in April, 1809. During the proximate siege of Flushing, we find Mr. Graham, who had just passed his examination, employed as a volunteer with the Scheldt flotilla. Being next ordered to Lisbon, he there, as Acting-Lieutenant, assumed the command, 28 Feb. 1810, of the hospital-ship, an appointment which the Admiralty confirmed by commission dated on 14 of the following April. In the autumn of the same year, shortly after his removal to the 74, Capt. Thos. Boys, he took voluntary command of several armed boats, and was sent up the Tagus to co-operate with the British troops at Alhandra, where he served with the present Capt. M. F. F. Berkeley, from the very day on which Wellington first occupied the lines of Torres Vedras until Masséna had retreated to Santarem. His subsequent appointments, after further cruizing In the on the North Sea and Baltic stations, were – 17 June, 1813, to the  74, Capt. Sam. Warren, whom he accompanied to the Mediterranean – 27 Aug. 1814, to the 74, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Williams at Sheerness – 29 Oct. 1814, to the 22, Capt. John Tailour, which ship, after assisting at the capture, in,spite of a desperate resistance, of seven Spanish and Portuguese slavers on the coast of Africa, he left 1 Nov. 1815 – and, 14 Sept. 1818, to the Coast Blockade, in which service he officiated, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the  50, and  74, both commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, until May, 1825. He was promoted to his present rank 29 July following, but does not appear to have been since employed.

Commander Graham, in 1830, was presented with the gold medallion of the Royal Institution for Preserving Lives from Shipwreck, for his intrepidity in having saved the master and part of the crew of the brig, wrecked near Deal, on her voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to London. – Copland and Burnett.

 GRAMSHAW. 

is the grandson of an old Post-Captain. He is brother-in-law of Commander G. A. Seymour, R.N.; and a relative of the late Lieut. Jas. Henry Garrety, R.N., who lost an arm, and was captured, while in command of the gun-brig, after a brave defence, by seven French gun-vessels, off the port of Granville, 16 July, 1805.

This officer entered the Navy, 2 July, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, under whom, after assisting at the defence of Acre, and witnessing the defeat of the Turks at Damietta, he served on shore in the expedition of 1801 to Egypt. The Tigre being paid off in Sept. 1802, he next, in March, 1803, rejoined Sir Sidney Smith, as Midshipman, on board the 50; in the boats of which ship and of the, commanded by Lieut. Jas. Boxer, he took part, 31 March, 1804, in the cutting out, after a very sanguinary and obstinate conflict of three-quarters of an hour, of the Schrik guard-vessel of 6 guns and 94 men. On 16 of the following May Mr. Gramshaw appears to have been further present in a gallant attack made by a squadron, under the orders of Sir Sidney Smith, upon a division of the enemy’s flotilla passing alongshore from Flushing to Ostend. Towards the close of 1805 we find him appointed, with the rank of Sub-Lieutenant, to the command of a rocket-boat, for the purpose of joining in an attack (afterwards postponed) on the enemy’s flotilla at Boulogne. Attaining the full rank of Lieutenant 22 Jan. 1806, he was appointed, in that capacity – 28 March, 1806, to the 14, Capts. Chas. Philip Butler Bateman and Jas. Robt. Philips, successively employed in affording protection to the North Sea convoys, and in contributing to the reduction of Copenhagen, where she led the fleet to its anchorage, and then assisted at the debarkation of the troops – 13 Sept. 1807, as First, to the 80, Capt. Andw. King, which ship, one of those taken on the latter occasion, he assisted in navigating to England – 11 March, 1808, after having aided in clearing the Danish prizes, when brought to Portsmouth, of their lading and stores, to the 98, Capts. Donald M‘Leod and Sam. Hood Linzee, bearing the flag for some time of the late Sir Chas. Tyler, in which ship, besides escorting the Russian Rear-Admiral Seniavin’s squadron from Lisbon to England, and visiting Vigo, he assisted in embarking Sir John Moore’s army after the battle of Corunna, on which occasion he brought off Marshal Beresford, who was the last man to leave the shore – 14 May, 1809, to the 74, Capts. Peter Halkett and Thos. Dundas, part of the force employed in the ensuing expedition to the Scheldt, where she was stationed off Bergen-op-zoom to watch the movements of the enemy’s flotilla – 6 May, 1811 (on the return of the Ganges from the Baltic, whither she had been next sent to act as an escort to the trade passing through the Great Belt), to the 74, Capts. Adam Mackenzie, John Ferris Devonshire, and Chas. Grant, the latter of whom he accompanied to the Mediterranean – and, 2 Oct. 1812, to the 120, bearing the flag on that station of his old Captain, Sir W. S. Smith. On 18 Aug. 1813 he served with distinguished bravery in the boats of a small squadron, under Capt. Thos. Ussher, in a very gallant attack made on the batteries at Cassis, where, after sustaining a loss of 4 men killed and 16 wounded, the British, in four hours, succeeded in capturing three heavy gun-boats, and 26 vessels laden with merchandise. Not having been employed since the peace, Mr. Gramshaw, on 5 Jan. 1839, accepted the rank of Retired Commander.

His son, Frederick Gramshaw, in the R.N., was lately surveying with Capt. Bullock in the.

 GRANDY. 

entered the Navy 26 April, 1823; passed his examination in 1831; obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 12 Dec. 1839; and on 1 Jan. 1842 was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. Continuing to serve in the Coast Guard, he had the good fortune, in Jan. 1845, to render much assistance to the sloop, when that vessel, with 250,000l. of specie on board took the ground between Stoke’s Bay and Fort Monckton. Mr. Grandy has been in command since 1 April, 1845, of the Revenue-cruizer. He is the Senior Lieutenant on the List of 1842.

 GRANDY. 

entered the Navy, in Feb. 1795 as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capts. Geo. Palmer, Edm. Crawley, and Manley Dixon, employed on the Home station; and, on subsequently joining the 64, Capt. John Bazely, attended the expedition to Holland in Aug. 1799. During the latter part of the war he served in the Mediterranean, as Midshipman of the 64, Capt. John Larmour. From the renewal of hostilities in March 1803, until July, 1807, he appears to have been employed, on the Home and Baltic stations, chiefly as Master’s Mate, in the 74, Capt Wm Bedford,  110, bearing the flag of Lord Gardner,  110, Capt. Chas. Aidham, and 98, flag-ship of Admirals Edw. Thornbrough and Jas. Gambier. After participating, as Sub-Lieutenant of the gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Daniel Shields in the operations against Copenhagen, he became successively Acting-Lieutenant, in 1808, of the  sloop, Capt. Bentinck Cavendish Doyle,, Capt. Joseph Pearce, and  16, Capt Jas. Tillard; which latter vessel, on 10 Aug. 1809 was taken, at the close of a very obstinate resistance of two hours, by two Danish brigs of war and a division