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ship 5 Sept. 1799, he was subsequently, in March, 1800, and April, 1801, appointed First-Lieutenant of the Southampton 32, Capt. John Harvey, and Leviathan 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Thos. Duckworth, on the West India station; where, in the former ship, he assisted at the reduction of the Danish and Swedish islands in March, 1801. On 3 Aug. 1802, Mr. Coode was promoted to the command of the Stork sloop; but, removing soon afterwards to the Druid 20, returned home, and in the following Oct. was paid off. Until advanced to Post-rank, 21 Oct. 1810, his next appointments were – in Dec. 1803, and April, 1805, to the successive command of the Atlas armed ship, and Brisk 18; in which latter vessel he appears to have captured on the Cork station, 12 Jan. 1810, Le Harpalode privateer, of 2 guns and 54 men. Assuming command, in Jan. 1814, of the Porcupine 22, as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, the subject of this sketch took part in many of the operations then in progress on the north coast of Spain, and was stationed at the mouth of the Adour when the passage of the bar across it was so memorably effected by the flotilla under that officer. He also accompanied the armament that soon after forced its entrance into the Gironde; and, when in command of the advanced squadron at Pauillac, originated the instructions which led to the capture and destruction, on 2 April, of a large flotilla by a detachment of boats under the orders of Lieut. Robt. Graham Dunlop.[1] From Sept. 1814, until paid off, 21 May, 1819, Capt. Coode further served with Sir Chas. Penrose, in the Queen and Albion 74’s, on the Mediterranean station, where, however, he commanded the latter, as a private ship, at the bombardment of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816; on which occasion, although unable since to procure a pension, he was very severely wounded,[2] He was subsequently appointed, 6 Jan. 1838, Captain-Superintendent of the Royal William Victualling Yard and of the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth, but has been unemployed since 13 Feb. 1843.
For his gallantry at Algiers, Capt. Coode was nominated a C.B. 19 Sept. 1816; a K.F.M., by the King of the Two Sicilies, 6 Nov. 1818; and also a K.W.N, by the King of the Netherlands. He married, 8 Feb. 1819, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir C. V. Penrose, and has an eldest son, Charles Penrose Coode, First-Lieut. R.M., who espoused, 13 Nov. 1845, the only daughter of Capt. Chas. Easden, R.N. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
COOK, F.R.S. (Lieut., 1818. f-p., 11; h-p., 29.)
Thomas Cook entered the Navy, 17 July, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Orion 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson; in which ship he attained the rating of Midshipman 18 June, 1809, and continued to serve until Dec. 1813. During that period he accompanied the expedition against Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807; and served, as a Volunteer, with the flotilla in the operations against Walcheren in Aug. 1809. On leaving the Orion, Mr. Cook joined the Royal Sovereign 100, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, Chas. Thurlow Smith, and Robt. Lambert; and, ,after intermediately assisting at the blockade of Toulon, he proceeded, at the close of 1814, to the Rio de la Plata, as Master’s Mate of the Orpheus 36, Capt. Chas. Montagu Fabian. On hearing of the renewal of hostilities occasioned by Buonaparte’s escape from Elba, he obtained leave to return to England in the Hotspue 36, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy; and, on the latter ship being paid off at the restoration of peace, he was appointed Admiralty- Midshipman of the Rochfort 80, commanded by his old Captain, Sir A. C.Dickson, with whom he remained until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 June, 1818 – an event which took place five years after he had passed his examination. Since that period he has not been afloat. Lieut. Cook, who was appointed, in Jan. 1837, one of the Professors of Fortification and Artillery at the Hon.E.I.Co.’s Military Academy at Addiscombe, is the originator of several valuable inventions, – among the most prominent of which we may notice the “Night Life Buoy,” which has been in universal adoption by the Royal Navy for more than 25 years, and was introduced into their respective services by the late Emperor Alexander of Russia, the late King of France, and the late King of Holland, all of whom honoured him with princely tokens of their approbation; – the “Moveable Platform, for training seamen to hit an object from a ship in motion, without necessarily expending ammunition in the practice,” an invention which has been for many years in constant use on board the Excellent; – and a much-approved “LifeBoat.” The medal of the Royal Humane Society, and the two gold medals of the Society of Arts, have been conferred on him; and on 4 June, 1840, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Agents – Messrs Stilwell.
COOKE. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
John Cooke (b) died in Aug. 1846.
This officer entered the Navy 29 May, 1819; obtained his commission 9 Jan. 1824; and, from about that period until 1827, served, on the Halifax and South American stations, in the Doterel 18, Capt. Rich. Hoare, and Adventure surveying sloop, Capt. Philip Parker King. Of the former vessel he was First-Lieutenant. He did not go afloat after leaving the Adventure.
COOKE. (Lieut., 1841. f-p., 19; h-p., 1.)
John Murray Cooke is second son of the Rev. Wm. Cooke, M.A., Vicar of Bromyard, co. Hereford.
This officer entered the Navy, 9 Feb. 1827, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Asia 84, Capt. Edw. Curzon, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Codrington, under whom he fought at the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. following. He continued to serve on the Mediterranean station, as Midshipman and Mate, in the Brisk and Wasp sloops, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Smith, and in the Britannia 120, flag-ship for some time of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, until Feb. 1835; after which we find him employed for four years on board the Rattlesnake 28, Capt. Wm. Hobson, on a surveying expedition to Australia and New Zealand, and intrusted with the performance of Lieutenant’s duty. On his return to England in- 1839, he became attached to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings. For his subsequent services in China, where in the Blenheim 72, Capt. Sir Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, he witnessed all the chief operations including the capture of the forts in the Boca Tigris the fall of Canton, &c., he obtained a commission dated 8 June, 1841. He then joined the Nimrod 20, Capt. Joseph Pearse; and from 31 March, 1842, until paid off in Jan. 1845, he was employed, in the East Indies, on board the Pelican 16, Capt. Philip Justice. His last appointment was, 25 Feb. 1846 to the First-Lieutenancy of the Electra 14. Capts. Wm. Heriot Maitland and Hon. Fred. Wm. Pleydell Bouverie, in which vessel he has been ever since serving in North America and the West Indies. Owing to the illness of Capt. Maitland, Lieut. Cooke appears to have acted for eight or nine months by the authority of his Admiral, as Commander of the Electra. Agent – J. Hinxman.
COOKE. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 15; h-p., 33.)
William Henry Cooke entered the Navy 1 May, 1799, as A.B., on board the Boadicea 38 Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats, part of the force employed under Rear-Admiral Chas. Morice Pole in an attack made on a Spanish squadron in Aix Roads, 2 July following. In March, 1801, he accompanied the same officer, as Midshipman, into the Superb 74; and, continuing to serve with him in that ship until Nov. 1808, took a warm part in the victory gained by Sir Jas. Saumarez over the Franco-
