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as first lieutenant of the Ganges 74, Captain T. F. Fremantle, at the battle of Copenhagen; obtained the rank of commander, April 27th, 1801; commanded the Amsterdam 32, armed en flûte, at Cork, in 1809 and 1810; and died in 1823. 



as midshipman on board la Concorde frigate, Captain Sir Richard J. Strachan; obtained his first commission in 1793; and lost an arm at the battle of Copenhagen, which circumstance was thus noticed by Lord Nelson, in a letter to the Earl of St. Vincent, May 8th, 1801:

And in a private letter, the hero, again speaking of him, says, “He is an excellent officer and a good man. In nine days from the loss of his arm he returned to his duty as first lieutenant.”

Mr. Johnson’s promotion to the rank of commander took place April 27th, 1801; and a pension for the loss of his limb was granted to him on the 19th Oct. following. He died in 1830. 



second lieutenant of the Irresistible 74, Captain George Martin, at the battle off Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14th, 1797, on which occasion he appears to have been wounded; first of the Foudroyant 80, Captain Sir Edward Berry, at the