first in the North Sea and afterwards in the Mediterranean. Removing as Midshipman, in 1800, to the Elephant 74, Capts. Thos. Foley and Geo. Dundas, he served in that ship under Lord Nelson at the hattle of Copenhagen 2 April, 1801, and on proceeding to the West Indies took part in the operations of 1803 against the French at St. Domingo. Between the summer of 1804, on 16 Sept. in which year he was confirmed a Lieutenant, and the date of his promotion to the rank of Commander, 15 June, 1814, we find him serving, in every quarter of the globe, in the Port Mahon sloop, Capt. Sam. Chambers, Barracouta schooner, commanded by himself, Racoon 18, Capt. Edw. Crofton, Avon 18, Capt. Mauritius Adolphus Newton De Starck, Dreadnought 98, Capt. Wm. Lechmere, Volontaire 38, Capt. Chas. Bullen, Hibernia 110, Capt. R. J. Neve, Troubridge armed ship, under his own orders, Dragon 74, bearing the flag of Sir Fras. Laforey, and Barham 74, Capt. John Wm. Spranger. He was wounded, during that period, in the boats of the Racoon at the recapture of a merchant-vessel off Cuba – was present in the Avon (after having escorted a Russian ship of the line to the Baltic, and Mr. Erskine, H.M. Minister, to the United States) in a gallant escape made by that vessel from the French 74-gun ship Regulus – aided, when in the Volontaire, in conveying the present King of the French to Malta, as also in capturing the island of Pomégue, near Marseilles, and in destroying Fort Rioux, mounting 14 guns, near Cape Croisette – and commanded the Troubridge at the reduction of the Isle of France. His last appointment was, 13 April, 1831, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued until posted 12 Feb. 1834.
MANSELL. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Arthur Lukis Mansell, is son of Capt. Sir Thos. Mansell, R.N., Kt., K.C.H.
This officer entered the Navy from the Royal Naval College 8 Sept. 1831; passed his examination in 1835; obtained his commission 14 Dec. 1841; and from 23 March, 1842, until 1846, was employed in the Mediterranean as Additional-Lieutenant of the Beacon surveying-vessel, Capt. Thos. Graves.
MANSELL. (Retired Commander, 1847. f-p., 14; h-p., 33.)
Bonamy Mansell, born 13 Oct. 1786, at Guernsey, is brother of Capt. Sir Thos. Mansell, R.N., Kt., K.C.H.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the London 98, commanded in the Channel by Capt. John Child Purvis, whom he there followed as Midshipman, in April, 1801, into the Royal George 100. Joining next, in 1802, La Dédaigneuse 36, Capts. Thos. Geo. Shortland, Peter Heywood, and Chas. Jas. Johnston, he sailed for the East Indies, where, in June, 1805, he accompanied the last-mentioned officer into the Cornwallis 50. After participating, 11 Nov. 1806, in a gallant attack made by that vessel, in company with the Sceptre 74, on the Sémillante French frigate, three armed ships, and 12 sail of merchantmen, the whole protected by seven batteries, mounting upwards of 100 pieces of cannon, in St. Paul’s Bay, Ile de Bourbon, Mr. Mansell, in Jan. 1807, joined the Culloden 74, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew; under whom, on 11 of the ensuing Dec, he witnessed the destruction of the dockyard and stores at Griessee, in the island of Java, and of all the men-of-war remaining to Holland in India. Being successively, 28 May, 1808, and 7 March, 1809, constituted an acting and a confirmed Lieutenant of the Sapphire sloop, Capts. George Davies and Bertie Cornelius Cator, we find him, on 1 May in the latter year, uniting with the Nereide frigate, Capt. Robt. Corbett, in a successful engagement with two batteries near St. Rose, in the Ile de Bourbon, where he was severely hurt in the leg by the premature explosion of a magazine containing 100 barrels of powder, which took place while he was in the act of pulling off from the shore with a message to Capt. Corbett from Lieut. Arthur Batt Bingham of the Nereide, with whom he had landed. He was subsequently concerned in the capture of the French frigate Caroline and of other vessels in St. Paul’s Bay, Ile de Bourbon; and he was then removed with Capt. Cator to the Otter sloop. His last appointments were – 23 May, 1810, for passage home, to the Leopard 50, Capt. Jas. Johnstone – 20 Dec. 1810, to the Tyrian 10, Capt. Henry Thos. Davies, attached to the force in the Channel – 6 Sept. 1811 (having left the Tyrian in the previous May), to the Helder 36, Capt. John Serrell, stationed in the Baltic – 13 Sept. 1813 (after eight months of half-pay), to the Salvador del Mundo, flag-ship at Plymouth of Vice-Admiral Wm. Domett – and 21 Nov. following, as First-Lieutenant, to the Saturn 56, Capts. Jas. Nash and Thos. Brown, in which ship, until 30 Nov. 1814, he was most actively employed on the coast of North America. During the year 1812 Mr. Mansell, at the time in the Helder, succeeded, in the presence of a convoy of 300 sail, in setting fire, at noonday, to a galliot, defended, on the beach, in the Great Belt, by a sharp fire from 3 or 4 field-pieces and musketry – an enterprise which occasioned the boats under his orders a loss of 2 Midshipmen and of at least 10 or 12 men killed and wounded. He had also the good fortune, in a boat of the same ship, in conjunction with another belonging to the Bellette, to effect the capture of a valuable merchantman laden with linen, and afterwards sold we believe for 11,000l. He accepted his present rank 9 April, 1847.
MANSELL, Kt, K.C.H., K.S.S. (Captain, 1814. f-p., 20; h-p., 34.)
Sir Thomas Mansell, born 9 Feb. 1777, is third son of the late Thos. Mansell, Esq., of Guernsey; and brother of Retired Commander Bonamy Mansell, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 Jan. 1793, as Midshipman, on board the Crescent, Capt. Jas. Saumarez, of 42 guns and 257 men, and on 20 of the following Oct. assisted at the capture, after a close action of two hours, of the French frigate La Réunion, of 36 guns and 320 men, 120 of whom were either killed or wounded, without any casualty whatever to the British.[1] He afterwards accompanied an expedition sent under the orders of Earl Moira and Rear-Admiral M‘Bride to cooperate with the French Royalists on the coasts of Normandy and Brittany; and on 8 June, 1794, he was present when the Crescent, by a bold and masterly manoeuvre, effected her escape from a French squadron, consisting of two cut-down 74’s, each mounting 54 guns, two frigates, and a brig. Following Sir Jas. Saumarez, in March, 1795, into the Orion 74, Mr. Mansell was afforded an opportunity of sharing in that ship in Lord Bridport’s action, as Master’s Mate in the battle fought off Cape St. Vincent (where he was wounded[2]), and in a similar capacity in the victory of the Nile. On 22 Oct. 1798, owing to the strong manner in which he was recommended by his Captain to Lord Nelson, he found himself nominated Acting-Lieutenant of L’Aquilon 74, Capt. Thos. Bowen. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 17 April, 1799, and was subsequently appointed – 12 Aug. following, to the Impregnable 98, Capt. Jonathan Faulknor, under whom he was wrecked between Langstone and Chichester 19 Oct. in the same year – 11 Dec. 1799 and 5 Feb. 1801, to the London 98 and Royal George 100, in the former of which ships (they were both commanded by Capt. John Child Purvis) he accompanied the expedition to Ferrol in Aug. 1800 – 5 April, 1803, after nearly 12 months of half-pay, to the Cerberus 32, Capt. Wm. Selby, on the Guernsey station, where, during an attack made in the month of Sept. on the town of Granville, he took command of the carronade launch, and elicited the applause of his Admiral for the manner in which
