Robt. Mosse, guard-ship at the Nore; where he removed, in Sept. 1797, to the Zealand 64, Capt. Thos. Parr. Becoming Midshipman, in the early part of 1799, of the Madras 54, Capts. John Dilkes and Chas. Hare, he sailed in that ship with convoy for China. He subsequently, in the Asia 64, Capt. John Dawson, accompanied the expedition sent to the Baltic for the purpose of breaking the Northern Confederacy. From Sept. 1802 (four months after he had been discharged from the latter ship) until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Jan. 1806, we find him employed in the North Sea in the Diligence 12, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, and Princess of Orange 74, Capts. Chas. Cunningham and Thos. Rogers. His last appointments afloat were – 3 March, 1806, to the Nassau 64, Capt. Robt. Campbell – 31 May, 1808, to the Parthian 10, Capts. Geo. Balderston, Rich. Harward, Hon. Henry Dawson, and Tomkinson, with whom he served in the Mediterranean and North Sea, until obliged by ill health to invalid in Oct. 1811 – and 28 Feb. 1812, to the Venerable 74, Capts. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, Sir Home Popham, and David Milne, stationed, chiefly, on the north coast of Spain. While in the Nassau, which ship was for a long time employed in blockading the Texel, and formed part of the expedition to Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807, Mr. Schultz (on her being extricated from a mass of ice in which she had been blocked up during the whole winter) assisted, 22 March, 1808, in company with the Stately 64, at the capture and destruction, on the coast of Zealand, of the Danish 74-gun ship Prindts Christian Frederic, after a running fight of great length and obstinacy, in which the Nassau sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 16 wounded. In the Parthian he fought in an action with three French ships-of-war, and accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren in 1809. He left the Venerable 9 June, 1813, and accepted his present rank 5 Jan. 1839.
Commander Schultz holds an appointment in the Stamp Office at Wisbech, in Cambridgeshire. He married 26 Nov. 1811, and has issue four children.
SCOBELL. (Retired Captain, 1843. f-p., 14; h-p., 35.)
George Treweeke Scobell, born 16 Dec. 1785, is second son of the late Peter Edw. Scobell, Esq., M.D., by Hannah, only daughter (by Hannah, daughter of Geo. Treweeke, Esq.), of John Sanford, Esq., of Penzance; and first cousin of Capt. Edw. Scobell, R.N. (1811), who commanded the Vimiera brig at the reduction of St. Martin’s, St. Eustatius, and Saba, in Feb. 1810, and the Thais 20, from March, 1811, until Jan. 1814, and died 17 April, 1825, at Poltair, near Penzance. One of his brothers, the Rev. Edw. Scobell, M.A., is Vicar of Turville, and Minister of St. Peter’s, Marylebone; and another, the Rev. John Scobell, M.A., is Rector of Southover, and of All Saints, Lewes, Sussex.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 March, 1798, as Midshipman, on board the St. Albans 64, Capt. Francis Pender, stationed on the coast of North America, whence, in 1800, he returned to England in the Assistance 50, Capt. Hall, on board of which ship was H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, then Governor of Nova Scotia. After having served in the North Sea and in the expedition to Copenhagen, in the Waaksamheidt 28, also commanded by Capt. Hall, he joined, in 1802, the Diamond 38, Capt. Elphinstone, with whom he continued actively employed on the coasts of France and Spain until nominated, in 1804, Acting-Lieutenant of the Plantagenet 74, Capt. F. Pender, off Brest. On 29 March, 1805, he was confirmed into the Queen 98; in which ship, commanded too by Capt. Pender, we find him assisting at the blockade of Cadiz, where, subsequently to the battle of Trafalgar (wherein it was not his fortune to share), he took part in an attack made, under the batteries, upon a French stray third-rate. On leaving the Queen, which had hoisted the flag of Lord Collingwood, he returned to England, early in 1806, in the Royal Sovereign 100, laden with prisoners taken on the late memorable occasion. He next, in the course of the same year, joined the Prince of Wales 98, bearing the flag in the Channel of Admirals Sir Rich. Bickerton and Edw. Thornbrough, and Plantagenet 74, Capts. Wm. Bradley and Thos. Eyles. In the ship last mentioned he served, part of the time as First- Lieutenant, until promoted to the rank of Commander 1 Feb. 1812. During that period he witnessed the flight of the Royal Family of Portugal to the Brazils, aided in embarking the remains of Sir John Moore’s array at Corunna, and was for three years stationed in the Baltic. He was in company with the Hero 74 when that ship was lost in a gale off the Texel in Dec. 1811. Unable, after he left the Plantagenet, to procure employment, he accepted, 14 Aug. 1843, the rank he now holds.
In 1823 Capt. Scobell (who has been for many years a Justice of the Peace for co. Somerset) invented and submitted to the Admiralty a “Dissecting Paddle-Wheel,” to be worked by winches, applicable to men-of-war of every size. These wheels were fitted to the Hecla and Fury, in Sir Wm. Edw. Parry’s expedition to the North Pole in the ensuing year, and with only 20 men at the winches produced a speed of one and a half knots per hour. Capt. Scobell married, 6 Oct. 1818, Hester, youngest daughter and co-heiress of Chas. Savage, Esq., of Midsomer Norton, in Somersetshire, and grandniece of Rich. Lansdowne, Esq., of Woodborough, in the same co.
SCOTT. (Lieut., 1827. f-p., 28; h-p., 7.)
Charles Kittoe Scott, born 19 July, 1799, is nephew of Michael Scott, Esq., Purser and Paymaster, R.N . (1800). His grandfather, Lieut. Thos. Scott, R.N., was lost in command of the Dutton store-ship on his passage home from the West Indies in company with the ships taken in Rodney’s action 12 April, 1782.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 Jan. 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Vigo 74, Capts. Henry Manaton Ommanney and Thos. White, flag-ship in the Baltic of Rear-Admirals Jas. Nicoll Morris and Graham Moore. From Jan. 1814 until Dec. 1816 he served in the West Indies and at Newfoundland in the Hazard 18, Capt. John Cookesley; and from Sept. 1818 until Nov. 1821 at St. Helena in the Redwing 18, Capt. Fred. Hunn. In April, 1823, having passed his examination 19 Feb. 1819, he became Master’s Mate of the Sophie 18, Capt. Geo. Fred. Ryyes, on the East India station, where he took an active and conspicuous part in the operations connected with the war in Ava, and was strongly recommended for promotion by his Captain for his zealous conduct. In an attack made, 3 June, 1824, upon the strong fortress of Kemmendine, he was shot through the leg. On another occasion, while engaged in the storming of a fort, he contrived to save the life of a soldier belonging to the 47th Regt.; and by so doing he was again recommended by Capt. Henry Ducie Chads and Commodore Thos. Coe. During his sojourn in the East Indies (whence he returned, in 1825, to England in the Liffey 50), Mr. Scott had command for a short time of the Cochin tender. In the course of 1826 he joined the North Star 28, Capt. Septimus Arabin, lying at Woolwich; and the Espiègle 18, Capt. K. Yates, Magnificent receiving-ship, and Britomart 10, Capt. Fred. Chamier, all in the West Indies. After acting as Lieutenant in the latter vessel he went back to the Magnificent, then commanded by Capt. Geo. Mansel, for the purpose of awaiting the arrival of the Valorous – a vessel into which, as a
the application of a Lieutenant, Geo. Forbes, under whose care he had been placed) to go on shore, after having been sent for into the Admiral’s cabin and questioned in presence of all the delegates. As soon as the outbreak had subsided he returned to the ship. Immediately prior to Parker’s execution, of which he was an eye-witness, his cot being directly over the one occupied by the latter, he had an opportunity of contemplating him while engaged nearly the whole night in writing. At about 11 p.m. the unhappy man gave him his prayer-book with these words – “Here, youngster, is a prayerbook for you.”
