not the Cumberland miraculously hove in sight at the eleventh hour, and with great difficulty effected their rescue. In the following May (he had been intermediately employed in the Montagu 74, Capt. Robt. Waller Otway, and Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis) Mr. Macdonald was placed, with the rank, we believe, of Acting-Lieutenant, in command of the Capelin schooner, on the Newfoundland station, where he remained until Feb. 1807. He was then (having been officially promoted on 22 of the preceding Dec.) appointed a Lieutenant of the Tribune frigate, Capts. Thos. Baker and Geo. Reynolds, with whom, until he invalided in Nov. 1812, he served in the Channel, Baltic, and West Indies. In April, 1807, we find him assisting, when in company with the Isis, at the destruction of the greater part of a convoy of 30 vessels passing from Ferrol to Bilbao under the protection of several gun-boats. He was also present, in 1809, in an action with some Danish gun-boats in the Belt; and in the course of the same year he chanced to be on board the Charger gun-brig, in the Malmo Channel, when that vessel preserved a convoy from capture. He had previously, we understand, been sent by Sir Rich. Keats with despatches from off Gottenborg to England in a small prize-boat of so crazy a description that it was with the greatest difficulty he succeeded in keeping her afloat, encountered as he was by four days of the most desperate weather. On 12 May, 1810, being again on board the Tribune, Mr. Macdonald partook of a gallant action of two hours and a quarter, in which the latter, with a loss of 9 men killed and 15 wounded, beat off, on the coast of Norway, four Danish brigs-of-war, carrying altogether 74 guns. From Sept. 1813 to June, 1814, he had charge of the Bienfaisant prison-ship at ]?lymouth. Entering the Transport service in Jan. 1815, he superintended the debarkations of the troops before and after the battle of Waterloo; and when at Antwerp in the following winter he alone despatched upwards of 90 vessels with army ordnance and stores to England. His last appointment afloat was to the command, in 1823, of the Harpy Revenue-vessel, in which he cruized with much success for a period of three years. He accepted his present rank 26 Jan. 1842.
Commander Macdonald has been for many years employed in the Quarantine service at Liverpool. He married Miss Cox, of St. John’s, Newfoundland, and by that lady has had issue a large family.
MACDONALD, C.B. (Captain, 1814. f-p, 20; h-p., 34.)
Colin Macdonald is second son of Colin Macdonald, second Laird of Boisdale, by his second wife, Isabella, daughter of Capt. Robt. Campbell, of Glenfalloch, whose family are next in succession to the Breadalbane titles and estates. One of his half-brothers, Alexander, served as Captain in the 71st Regt. during the American war; and another, Donald, on attaining, in 1796, the rank of Colonel, raised a regiment of the line, called the Macdonald Regiment, of which he was Colonel-Commandant. Capt. Colin Macdonald is a younger brother of the late Sir Reginald Macdonald, an Advocate and H.M. Sheriff-Depute for co. Stirling, and also of the present Lieut.-Colonel Robt. Macdonald, C.B., of Inchkenneth and Gribune, co. Argyle. He is uncle of Sir Henry Jas. Seton Steuart, Bart., of Allanton, co. Lanark, and of Lieut. Jas. Archibald Macdonald, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 April, 1793, as Ordinary, on board the Southampton 32, Capt. Hon. Robt. Forbes, which vessel was attached to the fleet under Lord Howe in the action of 1 June, 1794. In April, 1795, Mr. Macdonald, who on that occasion had performed the duties of Midshipman, removed to the Dryad, of 44 guns and 251 men, commanded at first by Capt. Forbes, and afterwards by Lord Amelius Beauclerk, on the coast of Ireland, where he took part, 13 June, 1796, in a close and spirited engagement of 45 minutes, which resulted in the capture, with a loss to the British of 2 killed and 7 wounded, and to the enemy of 30 killed and 45 wounded, of the French frigate La Proserpine, of 42 guns and 348 men. On 3 June, 1799, at which time he was serving on board the Andromache 32, Capt. Robt. Laurie, Mr. Macdonald was made Lieutenant into the Beaver sloop, Capt. C. B. Jones. His next appointments were – 4 Jan. 1800, to the Neptune 98, Capt. Jas. Vashon – 17 Nov. 1800, to the Resolution 74, Capt. Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner, whom he accompanied to the West Indies – 15 Jan. 1803 (after six months of half-pay), to the Constance 24, Capt. Anselm John Griffiths, employed in the North Sea – 19 Oct. 1803, to the Hero 74, Capt. Hon. A. H. Gardner, also on the Home station – and, 8 June, 1804, and 3 Aug. 1805, to the Monarch and Edgar 74’s, flag-ships, again in the North Sea, of Admiral Lord Keith. Obtaining a second promotal commission 4 June, 1807, Capt. Macdonald successively assumed command, 8 Aug. in that year and 13 Aug. 1812, of the Redpole 10 and Scylla 18. In the former of those vessels, after having co-operated in the reduction of Flushing, he made prize, 9 Dec. 1809, at the end of an action of half an hour, fought oif Beachy Head, of Le Grand Rodeur French privateer, of 16 guns and 80 men, 1 of whom was killed and 2 wounded;[1] and on 21 Sept. 1811 he contributed, in a very zealous manner, to the capture, in the course of a valiant contest with a division of the Boulogne flotilla, of La Ville de Lyons praam, of 12 long 24-pounders and 112 men.[2] When in the Scylla, and in company with the Royalist 18, Capt. Macdonald, after a long chase, commenced a spirited action, which lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes, and terminated in the surrender, 21 Oct. 1813, on the approach of the Rippon 74, of the French frigate Le Weser, of 40 guns and 340 men, at the time under jury main and mizen masts. The loss of the enemy appears to have been 4 killed and 15 wounded; and that of the sloops, united, of 2 killed and 11 wounded.[3] Capt. Macdonald attained Post-rank 7 June, 1814; was nominated a C.B. 4 June, 1815; and accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
MACDONALD. (Captain, 1846.)
Gordon Gallie Macdonald entered the Navy 21 July, 1809; and was made Lieutenant, 15 Dec. 1824, into the Rattlesnake 28, Capts. Hugh Patton and John Leith. His succeeding appointments were – 20 Dec. 1825, to the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship at the Nore of Sir Robt. Moorsom – 13 Nov. 1828, to the Childers 18, Capts. Wm. Morier and Robt. Deans, in which vessel, employed on various services, he continued, latterly as First-Lieutenant, until paid off in the early part of 1833 – 3 April, 1835, to the command (which he retained for nearly four years) of the Basilisk ketch, on the South American station – and 31 Oct. 1840, as Senior, to the Monarch 84, Capt. Sam. Chambers, fitting for the Mediterranean. He returned to England on the receipt of his second promotal commission, bearing date 23 Nov. 1841; and was lastly, from 28 Nov. 1842 until paid off in 1845, employed as SecondCaptain of the Dublin 50, flag-ship in the Pacific of Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas. He attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846.
Capt. Macdonald married, 13 Dec. 1842, Maria, relict of Wm. Gray, Esq., of the Inner Temple, and daughter of the Rev. Wm. Oddie, M.A. He was left a widower 4 Jan. 1846. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
MACDONALD. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
James Archibald Macdonald, born 18 Jan. 1808, is third son of Lieut.-Colonel Robt. Macdonald, C.B., of Inchkenneth and Gribune, co. Argyle, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for that shire, by Mary, third daughter of Thos. Douglas, Esq., of Grantham. He is a younger brother of Capt. Robt. Douglas Macdonald, late of the 42nd Highlanders, and of Capt. Chas. Kerr Macdonald, late
