ployed on shore in command of a detachment of seamen and marines for the purpose of co-operating with the military and militia, and of affording protection to the town of Montego Bay. While he was so engaged several ineffectual attempts were made by the insurgents to pass the outposts, set fire to the town, and destroy the magazines. On 26 Nov. 1832, in consequence of certain changes occasioned by the death of Sir E. G. Colpoys, Sir. Stroud was ordered to act as Commander of the Blanche; but on the arrival of the new Commander-in-Chief he resumed his former post of First-Lieutenant 18 April, 1833. On the paying off of the Blanche, having served for upwards of seven years in the capacity last mentioned in various ships, he made every exertion, but in vain, to obtain promotion. When, however, in the Asia, in the Mediterranean, he was advanced, 28 June, 1838, to the rank of Commander, and was immediately, 7 July, re-appointed to that ship as Second-Captain. Continuing in her until paid off in May, 1841, he was afforded an opportunity of figuring in many important scenes, was present throughout part of the operations on the coast of Syria, and assisted at the blockade of Alexandria. He was promoted in consequence to the rank he now holds on 30 Oct. in the latter year; and he is now on half-pay.
Capt. Stroud married, 21 May, 1844, Mary Ann, daughter of the late Edw. Cruse, Esq.
STROVER. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 20; h-p., 24.)
Samuel Strover was born 19 Nov. 1789.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 Oct. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Terrible 74, Capt. Lord Henry Paulet, with whom he served for nearly six years and eight months, the greater part of the time as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Channel, off Ferrol and Cadiz, and in the Mediterranean. On the paying off of the Terrible in June, 1810, he was recommended by his Captain for promotion as a reward for his activity and general good conduct. In the course of the same month he was received as a Supernumerary Master’s Mate on board the Salvador del Mundo, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Calder at Plymouth; and while attached to that ship he was intrusted with the command of the Jackdaw tender. From July, 1811, until Dec. 1812 he served on the north coast of Spain, still as Master’s Mate, in the Unicorn 32, Capt. Geo. Burgoyne Salt. He then sailed in the Cumberland 74, Capt. Thos. Baker, for the West Indies; where, after he had been for a few months employed in the Grampus 50, bearing the flag of Sir Fras. Laforey, he was successively, in July and Oct. 1813, nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Venus 32 and Marlborough 74, Capts. Mackenzie and Robt. Honyman. On his return to England in the latter ship he was presented with a commission dated 5 Feb. 1814; and in the following April he was appointed to the Pandora 18, Capts. Thos. Stamp and Jas. Kearney White, on the coast of North America. In Feb. 1815 he was so severely injured by an explosion of the small-arm ammunition that he was under the necessity of being sent to the hospital at Bermuda. He remained there three months; but it was not until the end of 1817 that his health and the use of his limbs were restored to him. Since 21 Nov. 1839 he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Strover married, 18 Feb. 1819, Elizabeth, daughter of John Bishop, Esq., of Snenton, Notts, by whom he has issue five children.
STROVER. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 17; h-p., 25.)
Thomas Strover entered the Navy, 26 Aug. 1805, as L.M., on board the Prince Frederick, Lieut.-Commander Leach, lying at Plymouth; and from Feb. 1806 until Aug. 1812 was employed, almost uninterruptedly, with the late Sir Sam. Hood, on the Home, Baltic, Mediterranean, and East India stations, as Fst.-cl. Vol., Midshipman, and Master’s Mate, in the Centaur 74, Hibernia 120, Tigre 74, Owen Glendower 36, and Illustrious 74. In the Centaur he was in company, 25 Sept. 1806, with the Mars and Monarch 74’s, at the capture of four heavy French frigates from Rochefort, on which occasion Sir S. Hood lost his arm. He accompanied also the expedition of 1807 against Copenhagen; beheld, in Dec. of that year, the surrender of Madeira; assisted, in conjunction with the Implacable 74, at the capture, 26 Aug. 1808, in sight of the whole Russian fleet, near Rogerswick, of the 74-gun ship Sewolod, after a close and furious conflict, in which the Centaur lost 3 killed and 27 wounded, and the enemy 180 killed and wounded; and in Aug. 1809 was engaged, under Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, in the attack upon Walcheren. On 18 Aug. 1812, being then on the East India station, he was nominated (he had been promoted at home on 7 of that month) Acting-Lieutenant of the Samarang 16, Capt. Wm. Case. He continued in the East Indies in the latter vessel, and in the Minden 74, bearing the flag of Sir S. Hood, and Theban 36, Capt. Sam. Leslie, until the early part of 1816, when he returned to England and was paid off. His next appointments were – 17 Sept. 1821 and 27 Nov. 1822, to the Carnation 18 and Tamar 26, Capts. John Edw. Walcott and Thos. Herbert, both on the Jamaica station, whence he came home in Aug. 1823 – and, 10 Jan. 1824, for about two years, to the Active 46, Capts. Andrew King and Robt. Rodney, on the Mediterranean and Lisbon stations. In Aug. 1846 he joined the Poictiers 72, Capt. Sir Thos. Bourchier, guard-ship at Chatham; and, since 24 Sept. following, he has been employed as Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel.
STRUGNELL. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 31; h-p., 21.)
William Baker Strugnell was born 27 Jan. 1788, at Plymouth, co. Devon.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 Nov. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Impérieuse 38, Capt. Lord Augustus FitzRoy, with whom he continued to serve at the Cape of Good Hope, in the Sphynx 20, until May, 1799. In the following July he joined the Shannon 38, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater; and in that ship, in which he remained until April, 1802, he accompanied, as Midshipman, the expedition to Holland, and witnessed the surrender of the Dutch squadron under Admiral Storey. He was employed next on the Plymouth station, from July, 1802, until May, 1805, in the Fisgard and Naiad frigates, both commanded by Capt. Jas. Wallis, Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, and Généreux prison-ship, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Lanyon. He was then received on board the Aeolus 32, Capt. Lord Wm. FitzRoy; and on 4 Nov. 1805 he was present in Sir Rich. Strachan’s action with the four French ships-of-the-line which had escaped from Trafalgar. In June, 1809, being then on the North American station, he removed (he had assisted in the preceding Feb. at the reduction of Martinique) to the Swiftsure 74, Capt. John Conn; he went back in the ensuing Oct. to the Aeolus, commanded at the time by Lord Jas. Townshend; and in 1810 he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Atalanta sloop, Capt. Fred. Hickey. In Dec. 1811, nearly seven months after he had been superseded from the Atalanta, he joined the Malta 84, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Benj. Hallowell in the Mediterranean, where he served as Master’s Mate in the pinnace in an attack made upon the arsenal of Ciotat, near Toulon, and commanded a gun-boat on the coast of Spain in co-operation with the army under Sir John Murray. In Oct. 1813 he was again ordered to act as Lieutenant in the Pompée 74, Capt. Sir Jas. Atholl Wood. He was confirmed to that ship 18 July, 1814, but left her in the following Oct., and was subsequently employed – from Oct. 1824 until June, 1826, in the Ramillies 74, Coast-Blockade ship, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot – in 1826-7, as an Agent for Transports afloat, in which capacity he received the thanks of the Navy Board for his exertions as connected with an
