occasion sustained a loss of a Midshipman (Mr. Rich. Boys) killed, and 8, including thie first-Lieutenant, John Sanderson, wounded. Sir Frederick himself suffered a narrow escape: while in the midst of the fire, encouraging and cheering his men, two bullets went through his hat; another caught the heel of his boot, and a stone grazed his lip. For his gallant conduct he was advanced to his present rank by a commission bearing date the day of the action. He returned in consequence to England, and has since been on half-pay.
He married, 26 May, 1847, Mary Clementina Marion, only daughter of Jas. Loch, Esq., M.P. for Wick, N.B., and niece of Capt. Fras. Erskine Loch, R.N.
NIGHTINGALE. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 10;[1] h-p., 32.)
David Thomas Nightingale died 22 Dec. 1844.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 Sept. 1803, as Ordinary, on board the Magnanime frigate, Capt. John Broughton; and in May, 1804, after having cruized in the Bristol Channel, removed as Midshipman to the Atlas 74, Capts. Wm. Johnstone Hope and Sam. Pym. In March, 1806, on his return from the West Indies, where he had been serving a short time in the Beaulieu 44, Capt. Chas. Ekins, he became attached to the Clyde 38, Capt. Edw. W. C. K. Owen, off Boulogne. Rejoining Capt. Ekins, in Feb. 1807, on board the Defence 74, he witnessed, during Admiral Gambier’s ensuing operations against Copenhagen, the surrender to the Comus 22, Capt. Edm. Heywood, of the Danish frigate Fredericscoarn. After this he visited Lisbon, and then, a second time, the West Indies; on which station he was successively received on board the Belleisle 74, Neptune 98, and Pompée 80, all flagships of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane; by whom, subsequently to the reduction of Martinique, we find him nominated, 18 Dec. 1809, Acting-Lieutenant of the St. Christopher sloop, Capts. Michael Head, Henry Nathaniel Rowe, and Wm. M‘Culloch, part of the force employed at the taking of Guadeloupe in Feb. 1810. On 27 Jan. 1811, at which period he was serving as a Supernumerary in the Dragon 74, flagship of Sir Fras. Laforey, he was placed in command, with the rank of Acting-Sub-Lieutenant, of the Orange schooner. He left that vessel in Jan. 1812; and was next, between the following Sept. (on 21 of which month he was officially advanced to the rank of Lieutenant) and Nov. 1814, employed on the West India, North American, and Home stations, in the Narcissus 32, Capt. John Rich. Lumley, Statira 38, Capt. Hassard Stackpoole, Negro prison-ship, Lieut.-Commander Isaac Strutt, and Favorite 22, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude. His last appointment was, 26 Nov. 1823, to the Coast Blockade, in which he served some time as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot.
NIND. (Commander, 1844. f-p., 32; h-p., 12.)
Philip Pitt Nind was born 14 Dec. 1788. This officer entered the Navy, 8 Dec. 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Utrecht 64, Capt. John Wentworth Loring, bearing the flag in the Downs of Rear-Admiral Philip Patton. With the exception of a few months in 1805-6, during which he was borne at Plymouth on the books of the Salvador del Mundo, Capt. John Loring, he continued employed with Capt. J. W. Loring in the Aurora 23, and Niobe 40, chiefly on the Home station, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 17 March, 1810; assisting, in the latter ship, at the capture, 28 March, 1806, of Le Néarque French national vessel of 16 guns and 97 men. Being next, 21 March, 1810, appointed to the Alert of 16 guns and 84 men, Capts. Alex. Renny, Geo. Barne Trollope, and Thos. Lamb Polden Langharne, he was on board that sloop on the Newfoundland station when captured, 13 Aug. 1812, by the U.S. frigate Essex of 46 guns and 328 men, after a most gallant resistance of 15 minutes, in which the British vessel had 3 of her people killed, and received seven feet water in her hold. While attached, from May, 1813, until Jan. 1814, to the Bulwark 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, Mr. Kind was frequently employed in command of the boats against the enemy in Basque Roads. His last appointments were – 27 Oct. 1814, to the Sparrowhawk 18, Capts. Thos. Ball Clowes and Fred. Wm. Burgoyne, under whom he served for upwards of 12 months on the Leith and Mediterranean stations – 30 Aug. 1822, to the Coast Guard – in the early part of 1824, to the command of the Defence Revenue cruizer – 15 Nov. 1827, again to the Coast Guard – and 9 April, 1840, to the command of the Prince Albert, another Revenue vessel. On 6 Jan. 1823, it was his fortune to save the crew of the Little Mary of London; a service for which he was honoured with the commendation of the Board of Admiralty and with the thanks of the Committee at Lloyd’s; who presented him with the sum of 50l. for distribution among those of his men who had put off with him in the boats to the rescue. As a reward for his conduct during 21 years’ continuous employment in the Revenue service he was promoted to the rank of Commander 5 Jan. 1844.
Commander Nind, who is Senior of 1844, married, 17 Feb. 1811, Miss Mary Chanly White, a lady by whom he has issue five sons and three daughters.
NIXON. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 12; h-p., 33.)
James Nixon died in 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 May, 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Aurora 28, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, lying at Spithead; and in the following month removed to the Diamond 38, Capt. Thos. Elphinstone, in the Channel. In March, 1803, he rejoined Capt. Caulfeild as Midshipman on board the Grampus 50, on the Guernsey station, whence he ultimately proceeded to the East Indies, and there accompanied the same Captain into the Russell 74. Between Sept. 1807 and May, 1809, we find him alternately serving in the Sir Francis Drake and Phaeton frigates, Capts. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, Clement Sneyd, and Geo. Harris; and on 11 Dec. in the former year contributing in the boats of the Sir Francis Drake to the destruction at Griessee, in the island of Java, of the dockyard and stores, and all the men-of-war remaining to Holland in the East Indies. After again serving for 10 months with Capt. Caulfeild in the Russell, he was nominated, 15 March, 1810, Acting-Lieutenant of the Hesper sloop, Capts. Henry Drury, David Paterson, Edw. Lloyd, and Barrington Reynolds. Continuing in that vessel until Sept. 1811, he succeeded, in command of her cutter, in boarding and carrying, 15 Nov. 1810, with a loss to the British of himself and 2 men wounded, the French national schooner La Mouche, bound to the Isle of France with despatches, 2 of whose people were killed, and 5, including their Commander, wounded;[2] and he assisted also at the reduction of Java, where he was employed on shore at the storming of Fort Cornells. On his arrival home in the Caroline 36, Capt. Christopher Cole, he was confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 3 Jan. 1812. Being next, 10 Sept. following, appointed to the Pembroke 74, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, he was afforded an opportunity of sharing in a partial action fought with the French fleet off Toulon, 5 Nov. 1813, and of witnessing the fall of Genoa in April, 1814. He was placed on half-pay in Aug. of the latter year, and did not afterwards go afloat. Agents – Burnett and Holmes.
NOAD. (Lieutenant, 1838. f-p., 16; h-p., 8.)
Arthur Mayne Noad entered the Navy, 19 Dec. 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tweed 28, Capts. Fred. Hunn and Lord Hen. John Spencer Churchill; in which ship he was for upwards of seven years employed, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, on the South American, Irish, North America
