an extraordinary number of vessels; was in the Pomone in the expedition to Quiberon in 1795; and was present in the Canada at the defeat of Commodore Bompart’s squadron, off the coast of Ireland, 12 Oct. 1798. His succeeding appointments were, 16 July, 1801, 19 May, 1802, and 16 July, 1803, to the Minerve,[1] San Fiorenzo, and Virginie frigates, Capts. Geo. Cockburn, Joseph Bingham, and John Poo Beresford, employed on the Mediterranean, East India, and Home stations. Obtaining a second promotal commission 8 May, 1804, Capt. Mangin was invested, 26 March, 1807, with the command of the Valorous praam. In that vessel he co-operated in the defence of Danzig, and was honoured with the thanks of the King of Prussia for the assistance he afforded in rescuing the garrison of Fort Weeickselmunde at the very moment it was about to be occupied by a division of Marshal Lefebvre’s troops. He was advanced, at the recommendation of Admiral Gambier, to Post-rank for his conduct off Copenhagen, 13 Oct. 1807; and from March to May, 1811, he held temporary command of the Saldanha frigate on the Irish coast. This was the last appointment he was able to procure. He acquired Flag-rank 23 Nov. 1841.
The Rear-Admiral married, 11 April, 1803, Magdalene, daughter of the Rev. H. D’AbZac, formerly Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, by whom, who died 13 Aug. 1840, he had issue four sons and two daughters. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
MANGLES, F.R.S. (Commander, 1815. f-p., 15; h-p., 32.)
James Mangles entered the Navy, in March, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Maidstone frigate, Capt. Ross Donnelly; previously to following whom as Midshipman, in Nov. 1801, into the Narcissus 32, he served off the coast of France, escorted convoy home from Oporto, and made a voyage to Quebec. In the Narcissus, after cruizing in the North Sea and also in the Mediterranean, where he assisted at the capture, 8 July, 1803, of the French corvette L’Alcion of 16 guns and 96 men, he accompanied the expedition to the Cape of Good Hope; on her passage whither the Narcissus, besides effecting the capture of Le Prudent privateer, of 12 guns and 70 men, retook the English merchant-ship Horatio Nelson, mounting 22 guns, and drove on shore the Napoléon, privateer, of 32 guns and 250 men. Subsequently to the reduction of the Cape and the capture of the 46-gun frigate Volontaire, Mr. Mangles, who had been invested with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, proceeded to the Rio de la Plata, whence we find him returning to England with the despatches announcing the conquest of Buenos Ayres. He had previously, 11 July, 1804, served with the boats of the Narcissus, Seahorse, and Maidstone, 10 in number, under the orders of Lieut. John Thompson, at the capture and destruction of 12 settees, lying at La Vandour, in the Bay of Hières, where the British, encountered by a tremendous fire of grape-shot and musketry, as well from the vessels themselves as from a battery and the houses of the town, sustained a loss of 4 men killed and 23 wounded. His appointments, after he left the Narcissus, Were – 26 Sept. 1806, to the Penelope 36, Capts. Wm. Robt. Broughton and John Dick, employed at first on the coast of Spain and at Halifax, and then on the West India station, where he aided at the reduction of Martinique in Feb. 1809 – in 1811-13, to the Boyne 98, and Ville de Paris 110, flag-ships in the Channel of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, under whom he was latterly in discharge of the duties of Signal-Lieutenant, and was present at the grand naval review held at Spithead – 5 Sept. 1814, as First, to the Duncan 74, bearing the flag in South America of Sir John Poo Beresford – and, in Jan. 1815, to the acting-command of the Racoon sloop, in which he returned to Plymouth, after escorting part of the Brazilian trade to Bristol. He was confirmed in his present rank 13 June, 1815, but has not been since afloat.
Commander Mangles published in Aug. 1823, in conjunction with the late Capt. Hon. Chas. Leonard Irby, R.N., a work entitled ‘Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor, in 1817-18.’ He is a F.R.S., and a Member of the London Geographical Society. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
MANICO. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 13; h-p., 28.)
Peter Smith Manico entered the Navy, 26 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ocean 98, Capt. Rich. Thomas, bearing the flag of Lord Collingwood in the Mediterranean, where he soon attained the rating of Midshipman, and continued to serve, until Nov. 1815, in the Cambrian 40, Capts. Eras. Wm. Fane and Chas. Bullen, Undaunted 38, Capts. Rich. Thomas and Thos. Ussher, Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew, and Undaunted again, Capts. T. Ussher and Chas. Thurlow Smith, of which latter ship he was confirmed a Lieutenant 16 March, 1814, after having for nearly three months acted in that capacity. On 13 Dec. 1810, being at the time in the Cambrian, he witnessed the destruction of a large convoy protected by two batteries in the Mole of Palamos, at which place the British, out of 600 officers and men, who had been employed in the boats of a squadron, sustained a loss of upwards of 200 killed, wounded, and taken prisoners. He was otherwise much engaged in the same ship in co-operation with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia; and, when Lieutenant of the Undaunted, assisted in conveying Napoleon Buonaparte from Frejus to Elba, and was present at the capture of the Tremiti islands. His last appointments were – 6 July, 1821, to the Perseus receivingship off the Tower, Capt. Jas. Couch – and, 13 Jan. 1824, to the Griper discovery-ship, Capt. Geo. Fras. Lyon. In the course of the latter year he joined in a disastrous attempt made to reach Repulse Bay – an enterprise whose harassing and distressing nature nearly ruined the constitutions of all connected with it. He was paid off in Dec. 1824, and has not been since afloat.
MANN. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Adrian Thomas Mann entered the Navy 11 Feb. 1814; served as Midshipman of the Swinger 12, in action with an American privateer off Surinam in 1815; passed his examination in 1820; was employed in a boat of the Cambrian frigate at the capture of a pirate in the Archipelago in 1826; and in 1827 (on 24 April in which year he attained his present rank) took command of the boats of the Camelion, and cut out a similar description of vessel. His appointments, since his promotion, have been – 20 June, 1831, to the Coast Guard – 26 Sept. 1837, to the command of the Stork Revenue-vessel – 6 Oct. 1840, again to the Coast Guard – 30 Dec. 1844, to the post of Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel – 19 June, 1846, to the Redwing steam-packet, Capt. Thos. Bevis, lying at Liverpool – and, 5 Feb. 1847, to the command of the Merlin, another steam-packet, of 312 horsepower.
Lieut. A. Mann married, in 1829, Sarah, daughter of Mr. Pearce, at that time chief officer of the Coast Guard station at Hope, near Kingsbridge, by whom he has issue.
MANN. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
James Saumarez Mann entered the Navy in 1835; passed his examination 8 June, 1842; and after serving as Mate of the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and Pantaloon 10, commanded on the coast of Africa by Capt. Edm. Wilson, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 21 Oct. 1845, and appointed Additional of the Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant on the latter station of Commodore Wm. Jones. He has been attached, since 15 Sept. 1846, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Edw. Collier, now in the Mediterranean.
- ↑ The Minerve effected the capture and destruction, 2 Sept. 1801 , of the Succès of 32, and Bravoure of 42 guns.
