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the attack of Owia, in the Island of St. Vincent, this officer had eight men killed and wounded in his own boat, – half of them belonging to the Thorn sloop, the others to H.M. 60th regiment. La Bonne Citoyenne and the frigates attached to the fleet under Sir John Jervis, at the battle off Cape St. Vincent, were not mere spectators on that occasion; they participated in the engagement, by exchanging several broadsides with various Spanish ships of the line. After this great victory, and while the said sloop was under repair at Gibraltar, Lieutenant Young volunteered his services, and commanded a gun-boat in two successful actions with a Franco-Spanish flotilla, of superior force, sent from Algeziras, to cut oft’ some valuable British and other merchantmen making for the rock. Previous to his leaving la Bonne Citoyenne, he received a severe bruise by the heart of the main-top-mast falling (shot away) while he was training the forecastle guns at a Spanish man-of-war steering for Cadiz. 



quitting the Pilot sloop, this officer served as lieutenant of the Grampus 50, Vestal 28, and Venerable 74. In 1814, he was successively appointed acting commander of the Satellite 18, and Spider 16. 



prize line-of-battle ship in which this officer served under lieutenant (how superannuated Rear-Admiral) 