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made a commander in June 1795; and granted the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital, in Sept. 1822: he died on the 15th Jan. 1823.





his first commission in 1790, and lost a leg whilst serving as second lieutenant of the Thames 32, Captain James Cotes, in an action with the French frigate Uranie, of far superior force.

This combat took place on the 24th Oct. 1793, in lat. 47° 2' N. long. 7° 22' W., and was continued with great spirit on both sides, from about 10-30 until 2-20, when the enemy hauled off to the southward, making all the sail she could, and leaving the British ship in too crippled a condition to pursue her, as will be seen by the following enumeration of her damages and loss, taken from Captain Cotes’s official letter, dated at Gisors, in France, April 9th, 1795:–

The Thames mounted thirty-two long twelve and six-pounders, without a single carronade; her opponent twenty, eight long eighteens, twelve long eights, and four thirty-six-pounder carronades, with a complement of at least 330 men.