A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pratt, James
PRATT. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
James Pratt entered the Navy 13 July, 1808; passed his examination in 1815; served on board the Britomart 10, Capt. Robt. Riddell (now Carre), at the bombardment of Algiers, 27 Aug, 1816; obtained his commission 27 May, 1825; was employed in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, from 27 July following until March, 1831; and has since been in command of a station in the Coast Guard. In 1840 he received a silver medal from the Shipwreck Institution, and the thanks of the Royal Humane Society, for his exertions in saving the crews of three vessels wrecked on the beach between Bearshide and Black Rock, co. Cornwall.