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bearing the flag of Admiral Barrington, London 98, Capt. Geo. Blagden Westcott, and, in the Mediterranean, on board the Romney 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sam. Cranston Goodall. He then followed the latter officer into the Princess Royal 98, in which ship we find him, during the months of Aug. 1793, and Feb. 1794, present in action with the forts at the occupation of Toulon, and at the capture of St. Fiorenza. After a period of five months’ additional servitude in the Victory 100, flag-ship of Lord Hood, Mr. Clyde, on 18 Aug. 1794, was reappointed, with the rank of Lieutenant, to the Princess Royal, commanded as before; and he had thus an opportunity of witnessing Hotham’s partial actions of 14 March and 13 July, 1795. On 7 Oct. 1796 he next joined the Glory 98, Capt. Brine; and, on 2 May, 1798, he was appointed to the Captain 74, Capts. John Aylmer, Geo. Bowen, Sir Rich. John Strachan, and Chas. Boyles. Under Sir Rich. Strachan, he assisted at the capture, 19 June, 1799, of Rear-Admiral Perree’s squadron of three frigates and two brigs; and, in 1800, attended tile expeditions against Quiberon and Ferrol, besides contributing to the boat-destruction, on 18 Nov. in that year, of a 20-gun corvette, defended by a heavy fire on all sides from the shore in the Morbihan.[1] The Captain being paid off on her return from Jamaica, in 1802, Lieut. Clyde’s subsequent appointments, until promoted to the rank of Commander, 21 Oct. 1810, appear to have been, in July, 1803, to the Sea Fencibles at Maidstone; and, on the North Sea station – 26 Sept. 1804, to the Hindostan, Capt. Alex. Fraser – 16 Feb. 1805, to the Inflexible 64, Capt. Thos. Bayley – 19 July, 1805, to the Dictator 64, Capt. Jas. Macnamara – for six weeks in 1808 to the acting-command of the Quebec 32 – then, again, to the Dictator, Capt. Donald Campbell – and, in Aug. 1809, as First, to the York 74, Capt. Robt. Barton, attached to the force in the Mediterranean. Capt. Clyde, who has been on half-pay ever since 1810, assumed his present rank 10 Sept. 1840.
He married, 20 April, 1818, a daughter of the Rev. Wm. Milton, vicar of Heckfield, co. Hants.
COAKLEY. (Retired Commander, 1840.)
Thomas Coakley entered the Navy, 25 Jan. 1798, as A.B., on board the Lynx 16, Capt. Robt. Hall, and, while cruizing off the coast of North America, assisted in capturing, 27 June, 1798, Le Mentor privateer, of 14 guns and 79 men. About the commencement of the century he became Master’s Mate of the Assistance 50, Capt. Rich. Lee, On the North Sea station; and, after an additional attachment to the Andromache 38, Capt. Robt. Laurie, obtained an Acting-Lieutenancy in the Téméraire 98, Capt. Elias Harvey, in time to participate in the battle off Cape Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, on which occasion the latter ship was stationed next astern of the Victory, and enacted a most distinguished and important part. Having been officially promoted in the Gibraltar 80, Capt. Whitby, the subject of this sketch soon afterwards rejoined Capt., then Rear-Admiral, Harvey, as his Flag-Lieutenant, on board the Tonnant 80, off Cape Finisterre; from which ship we next find him transferred to the Procris 18, part of Lord Gambler’s force during his operations against Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807. On subsequently proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope with Capt. Jas. Murray Gordon, he joined the Raisonnable 64, Capts. Josias Rowley and John Hatley; and, in Sept. 1809, took part in the reduction of St. Paul’s, Isle Bourbon. Since 1812, in the course of which period he further served, on the Jamaica station, in the Polyphemus 64, Capt. Peter John Douglas, and Thalia 36, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon, Commander Coakley has been unemployed. He assumed his present rank 29 Dec. 1840.
COATES. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 9; h-p., 34.)
George Lewis Coates, born 20 March, 1784, is brother of Edw. Coates, Esq., Surgeon R.N., who died while serving in the East Indies in 1822.
This officer entered the Navy (from the merchant service), 3 Aug. 1804, as Midshipman, on board the St. Alban’s 64, Capt. John Temple; removed, as Master’s Mate, in March, 1805, to the Volcano bomb, Capt. Edw. Killwick, by whom he was much employed on boat service against the French flotilla at Dunkerque, Calais, and Boulogne; and, having joined in March, 1806, the Leveret 18, Capts. Geo. Burgoyne Salt and Jas. Rich. Lawrence O’Connor, attended the expedition to Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807, and was wrecked, 10 Nov. following, on the Galloper Rock, on which occasion he was among the last to leave the vessel, although rapidly sinking. Being draughted next into the Leonidas 38, Capts. Jas. Dunbar, Henry Hope, and Anselm John Griffiths, he served for two years under those officers in various parts of the Mediterranean; and then, in Dec. 1809, joined, on the same station, the Espoir 18, Capt. Robt. Mitford. Besides officiating as Prize-Master of several captures, Mr. Coates, on 4 April, 1810, assisted, as Master’s Mate, and was reported in the highest terms for his conduct, at the destruction, by the boats of the Success 32, and Espoir, under Lieut. Geo. Rose Sartorius, of several vessels, well protected on the beach abreast of Castiglione;[2] and he subsequently contributed, with the boats of the latter sloop and of the Spartan 38, to the capture of other craft from beneath the fire of a battery and musketry at Terracina. We afterwards find him for short periods attached to the San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Cotton, Rodney 74, Capt. Geo. Burlton, Halcyon 16, Capt. Thos. Stamp, and Nautilus 18, Capt. Thos. Dench. While on board the Halcyon, Mr. Coates was present with the Bustard in an attack on several small vessels on the coast of Catalonia; and, when in the Nautilus, he took a privateer of more than 100 men, off the island of Sardinia. Having received his commission 21 March, 1812, he obtained an appointment, 11 Aug. 1813, to the Blenheim 74, Capt. Sam. Warren, with whom he served in the North Sea, and again in the Mediterranean, until the close of 1814; since which period he has been on half-pay.
Lieut. Coates married, 10 June, 1836, Miss Harriet Elizabeth Adams, and has issue two daughters.
COATES. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 24; h-p., 25.)
Richard Coates entered the [Navy, in March, 1798, as Midshipman, on board the Argo 44, Capt. Jas. Bowen, which ship, besides capturing a large number of heavy privateers, assisted at the reduction of Minorca in Nov. following – took, 6 Feb. 1799, the Spanish frigate Santa Teresa, of 42 guns and 530 men – brought Earl St. Vincent home from the Mediterranean in Aug. of the same year – convoyed nine homeward-bound East Indiamenfrom St. Helena, in the summer of 1801 – and was next employed on the coast of Africa. From March, 1803, until April, 1806, Mr. Coates served in the Dreadnought 98, Capt. Jas. Bowen, Puissant 74, guard-ship at Spithead, Capt. Irwin, and Athénienne 64, Capts. Fras. Fayerman and John Giffard. He then joined the Excellent 74, Capt. Frank Sotheron, in which ship he took part in the defence of Gaeta and capture of Capri; and after a re-attachment to the Puissant and a further servitude on board the Polyphemus 64, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Admiral Murray, was promoted, 7 Nov. 1806, to a Lieutenancy in the Duke 98, Capt. Thos. White, one of the Channel fleet. Removing, in March, 1808, to the Surinam 16 Capt. John Lake, he assisted at the taking of Martinique, in Feb. 1809; and on 14 ot the following month he was placed on half-pay. On 16 Aug. in the same year, however, he was appointed to the Jasper 10, Capt. Wm. Westcott Daniel, in which vessel, and in the Doterel 16, commanded by the same officer, he continuously served, on the Lisbon and West India stations, until Aug. 1812. From Jan. 1815, until Oct. 1826, we afterwards find him employed (with but the interruption of a few months in 1817 and 1823) as Agent for Transports afloat, and for some time
