SANDERS. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Edwin William Sanders entered the Navy 11 Dec. 1828; and for his services on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Nov. 1840. His succeeding appointments were – 15 Dec. 1840, to the Bellerophon 80, Capt. Chas. John Austen, in the Mediterranean – 13 Aug. 1841, a few weeks after the latter ship had been paid off, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – 18 Dec. 1841, to the Indus 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, again in the Mediterranean, whence he returned in 1844 – 5 Feb. 1845, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Edw. Collier, with whom he served on the Home station until superseded in the following Sept. – and, 24 Aug. 1846, as First, to the Bulldog steam-sloop, Capt. Geo. Evan Davis, fitting at Devonport. He has been on half-pay since the early part of 1847. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
SANDERS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 21; h-p., 21.)
John Sanders had a brother who, after having been for five years a Midshipman in the Navy, obtained, in 1812, an Ensigncy in the Royal African corps, and for his gallantry while a passenger in the Amelia 38, in a desperate action fought between that ship and the French frigate Aréthuse off the Isles de Los, 7 Feb. 1813, was promoted by the Duke of York to the rank of Lieutenant. He died at the Cape of Good Hope in 1830.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 Jan. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Agincourt 64, Capts. Thos. Briggs, Henry Hill, Robt. Henderson, and Wm. Kent, in which ship (with the exception of a few days passed at the commencement of 1808 at Chatham in the Pompée 74, Capt. Geo. Hope) he continued employed on the Home and Lisbon stations until transferred, in Feb. 1812, to the Ariel 16, Capt. Daniel Ross. He commanded a flat-bottomed boat, during that period, in the expedition to the Walcheren, as also in the river Tagus, and was frequently engaged in the landing and embarking of troops. After being for two years in the Ariel in the Baltic, he was again, in Feb. 1814, placed under the orders of Capt. Henderson in the Tigris 36, on the Irish station. In Aug. 1815 he was presented with a commission bearing date 6 of the preceding April; and he was afterwards, from 31 May, 1824, until 17 Dec. 1834, employed as an Agent afloat in the Admiral Berkeley, Southwark, Parmelia, Maitland, and Marquis of Huntley hired transports. On 11 Nov. 1831 we find him, in the Parmelia, superintending the debarkation of a military and naval force (consisting of 451 officers and men, 2 of whom were killed and 47 wounded) in a successful attack on the natives at Barra Point, in the river Gambia – a service for which he was strongly recommended for promotion toSir Jas. Graham, then First Lord of the Admiralty, by Rear-Admiral Fred. Warren, the Commander-in-Chief, and the Governors of Sierra Leone and the Gambia.
In 1823 Lieut. Sanders, at that time a resident on half-pay at Demerara, displayed great activity as a Captain in the “Marine Battalion” during the insurrection among the negroes. He has been Superintendent, since 26 June, 1837, of the Dreadnought, seamen’s hospital-ship at Greenwich.
SANDERS. (Retired Commander, 1841. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
John Harry Sanders was born 10 Dec. 1784.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 March, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Agincourt 64, Capt. John Bligh, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Hon. Wm. Waldegrave at Newfoundland; and in July, 1800, became Midshipman of the Melpomène 38, Capt. Sir Chas. Hamilton, stationed on the coast of Africa. On the night of 3 Jan. 1801 he assumed command of one of five boats, carrying in the whole 97 volunteers, under the orders of Lieut. Thos. Dick, dispatched for the purpose of surprising a corvette of 18 guns and an armed schooner anchored within the bar off Senegal. After a desperate struggle of 20 minutes, in which 11 men were killed, 18 wounded, and 2 boats sunk, the British gallantly carried the corvette Le Sénégal, which they eventually destroyed under a heavy fire of grape and musketry from the batteries. The schooner, having cut her cable and sought protection under the fire of a battery and of some musketry on the southern bank of the river, frustrated every attempt made to get at her. In the course of the same year Mr. Sanders, who had been himself severely hurt, was awarded the rating of Master’s Mate. He continued in the Melpômène, the latter part of the time on the West India station, until Sept. 1802. He next, in May, 1803, joined the Amaranthe 18, Capt. Chas. Worsley Boys, attached to the force in the North Sea, where he came into repeated collision with the enemy; and from March, 1804, until the early part of 1806, he was employed in the Eagle 74, Capt. David Colby, Regulus 44, Capt. C. W. Boys, and Swiftsure 74, Capts. Mark Robinson and Wm. Geo. Rutherford. In the Regulus he was engaged in watching the Boulogne flotilla; and in the Swiftsure he fought at Trafalgar. He returned to England in the Bahama, a Spanish 74 taken during the action. Being advanced to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 23 Sept. 1806, he was in that capacity appointed, 5 Jan. and 13 Aug. 1807, to the Hindostan 50, Capt, Thos. Bowen, and Statira 38, Capts. Sir Robt. Howe Bromley, Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, and C. W. Boys, employed in the Channel, on the North American station, and off the coast of Spain. Volunteering his services subsequently he succeeded, in the boats, in capturing a vessel laden with com, previously supposed to be armed. While absent, in June, 1809, in a fishing-boat with 2 officers and 20 men, in quest of a privateer which he had offered to cut out, he encountered two armed luggers, carrying about 40 men each, and after a valiant resistance, productive of a loss to the enemy of 8 killed and 10 wounded, was captured and taken to St. Jean de Luz. On this occasion he received three musketbaUs, one of which struck his left cheek close to the ear, and, passing out near the nose, turned the eye out of its socket. He obtained in consequence a grant of 200l. from the Patriotic Fund; and was awarded, 15 Aug. 1814, a pension of 91l. 5s. per annum. At the end of the war he was restored to liberty; and on 29 Jan. 1841 he accepted the rank he now holds.
Commander Sanders married, in Dec. 1823, Susanna, second daughter of John Jefferson, Esq., of Cheshunt.
SANDERS. (Capt., 1841. f-p., 22; h-p., 28.)
Thomas Sanders entered the Navy, 2 April, 1797, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board La Nymphe 36, Capts. John Cooke, Percy Fraser, and Stair Douglas, in which vessel he served in the Channel and Mediterranean until April, 1802 – latterly in the capacity of Midshipman. During that period he lost two of his fingers by the breaking of the spanker-boom, on which he happened to be standing when a smuggling-vessel was endeavouring to effect her escape to leeward. In June and Sept. 1802 he joined the Hussar 38 and Ambuscade 32, Capts. Philip Wilkinson and David Atkins; he was next, in May, 1803, received on board the Helder 36, Capt. Edw. Hawkins, lying in the river Humber; and on 19 Sept. 1806, after he had been about two years and a half employed on the Channel, Lisbon, and Plymouth stations, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Ville de Paris and Hibernia 110’s, flag-ships of Admirals Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, Chas. Edm. Nugent, Earl St. Vincent, and Sir Jas. Saumarez, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, He continued in the Hibernia until 16 June, 1807, and was afterwards appointed – 21 July, 1807, as First, to the Raleigh 18, Capts. John Ore Masefield, Geo. Sayer, and John Sheridan, in which vessel he cruized in the Atlantic, accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren in 1809, and visited the
