Asia 64, Capt. Robt. Murray. He was officially promoted 17 Nov. following; and was next in succession appointed – 16 Feb. 1801, to the Rambler 14, Capts. Peter Rye and Thos. Innes, on the Channel station – 8 Oct. 1803 (after nearly 12 months of half-pay), to the Penguin 18, Capts. Geo. Morris and John Langdale Smith, with whom he served for three years on the coast of Africa and in the West Indies – 20 Nov. 1806, to the Modeste 36, which frigate he fitted out as First-Lieutenant – 11 Dec, 1806, in the capacity last mentioned, to the Daedalus 32, Capts. Fred. Warren and Sam. Hood Inglefield, then on the eve of her departure for the West Indies, where, in an attack made by him in the boats on two privateers, he received a sabre-cut in the face, so severe that the Patriotic Society, unasked, voted him the sum of 80l. – and, 29 Sept. 1810 (immediately on his return to England), as Senior, to the Malacca 36, Capt. Wm. Butterfleld, whom he accompanied to the East Indies. Owing to the death of Capt. Dawson of the Piedmontaise frigate, Mr. Rayley, in the absence of Commodore Broughton, the Commander-in-Chief, was by Capt. Butterfleld directed, 12 Oct. 1811, to act as Captain of that ship, at the time in Madras Roads. On 31 of the following Dec, after the Piedmontaise had been docked at Bombay, and while she was in the act of refitting, he was superseded by the Commodore, on the return of the latter from the expedition against Java, and placed in command (with the rank only of First-Lieutenant) of the Illustrious 74. In April, 1812, he obtained acting-command of the Barracouta 18, in which vessel he took and destroyed several Malay pirates, and accompanied a squadron sent under Capt. Jas. Bowen of the Phoenix frigate to act against the Rajah of Sambas, in Borneo. During the operations which took place on the Sambas river the Barracouta, besides having to surmount many difficulties of navigation, suffered much from the long guns in the enemy’s forts, 93 of the shot from which lodged in her sides and masts. Her casualties (she had on board a detachment of the 78th regt.) amounted to 5 men killed, and 1 Lieutenant, 1 Midshipman (mortally), the Surgeon, the Boatswain, and 25 others, wounded. In April, 1813, an officer from England having been appointed to command the Barracouta, Mr. Rayley was superseded. He returned home in consequence a passenger in the Illustrious 74; and on memorializing the Admiralty was presented, 1 Dec. in the same year, with a Commander’s commission.
Commander Rayley married, 25 Nov. 1841, Mary, daughter of Capt. Robt. Alefounder, of the Suffolk Militia, and relict of Jas. Robinson, Esq., of Southwold. He was left a widower 16 Dec. 1846.
RAYMOND. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 25; h-p., 15.)
George Raymond was born in 1794.
This officer entered the Navy, 11 March, 1807, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the Edgar 74, Capts. Robt. Jackson, Jas. Macnamara, and Stephen Poyntz; and in that ship, which at first bore the flag of Lord Keith, was for upwards of three years and a half employed (the greater part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman) in the North Sea, Channel, and Baltic. In Aug. 1808 he witnessed the embarkation of the Marquis de la Romana and his patriot troops from Nyeborg; at which place and at Langland he assisted in cutting out some Danish gun-boats. On one of the occasions he was slightly wounded. Removing, in Dec. 1810, to the Tremendous 74, Capt. Robt. Campbell, he served for two years and a half in that ship in the North Sea, Baltic, and Channel, and was present in her at the destruction of a French frigate and corvette off Barfleur in 1812. In July of the latter year he joined the San Josef 110, bearing the flag of Lord Keith in the Channel; where, in Oct. of the same year, he became Master’s Mate of the Belle Poule 38, Capt. Geo. Harris. In the early part of the following year he was captured in a prize by the American lette--of-marque Volante, but was soon afterwards retaken in Boston Bay by the Curlew sloop, Capt. Michael Head; from which vessel, in April, 1813, he was transferred to the Shannon of 50 guns, throwing a broadside weight of 538 lbs., and 306 men, Capt. Philip Bowes Vere Broke. On 1 June following he had the honour of assisting, and being particularly recommended for his conduct, at the capture of the American ship Chesapeake, of 50 guns, yielding a broadside of 590 lbs., and 376 men – an exploit achieved after a close and desperate action of 15 minutes, a loss to the British of 24 killed and 59 wounded, and to the enemy of 47 killed and 115 wounded.[1] Among the wounded on board the Shannon was Mr. Raymond, who received a ball in the right arm, which has never been extracted and still occasions him much pain. In Oct. 1813 (having taken a passage for the purpose on board the Aeolus 32, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend) he again joined the Belle Poule, still commanded by Capt. Harris, under whom he assisted, in the spring of 1814, in forcing the entrance of the Gironde, and in there destroying a line-of-battle ship, three brigs of war, several smaller vessels, and all the forts and batteries on the north side of the river. During a portion of the operations he had charge of a French prame. On leaving the Belle Poule, which had been latterly commanded in the West Indies by Capt. Fras. Baker, Mr. Raymond joined the Royal Oak 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Pulteney Malcolm; and on 14 of the ensuing Dec, previously to sharing in the attack upon New Orleans (where he served on shore with the army), he commanded one of the boats of a squadron at the capture, on Lake Borgne, of five American gun-boats under Commodore Jones, whose desperate resistance occasioned the British a loss of 17 men killed and 77 wounded. On 17 Feb. 1815 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His appointments have since been – 6 April, 1815, to the Florida 20, Capts. Andrew Mitchell and Wm. Elliott, employed at first in the West Indies and afterwards in the North Sea, whence he invalided 24 March, 1816 – 13 Dec. 1829, to the Coast Guard, in which service he remained nearly 12 years as a chief officer and an Acting-Inspecting-Commander – 2 Dec. 1841 and 15 April, 1842, to the command of the Snipe cutter and Spy brigantine, in the latter of which vessels he proceeded for the suppression of the slave-trade to the coast of Africa, ratified treaties with Kings Eyo and Eyamba of the river Calabar (by the former of whom he was presented with a sword) , and then returned with the ratifications to England – 31 March, 1843, again to the Snipe, in which vessel he served on the north-west coast of Ireland and in the Channel until paid off at the commencement of 1845 – 4 March, 1847, to the command of the Dover steam-packet of 90-horse power – 18 Oct. 1847, as Additional-Lieutenant (in Packet service at Dover), to the Ocean 80, Capt. David Price, guard-ship at Sheerness – and, 11 Jan. 1848, to the Onyx steam-packet of 120-horse power, wherein he is now employed.
Lieut. Raymond married in 1819, and again in 1844, and has a family of seven children. Two of his sons, George and Michael, are Master-Assistants in the service. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
RAYMOND. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
James Grant Raymond entered the Navy 27 May, 1812; served as Midshipman on board the Loire 38 during the war with the United States; was employed as a volunteer in the rocket-boat belonging to the Superb 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; passed his examination in 1821; and obtained his commission 29 March, 1828. He was afterwards appointed continuously – 21 March, 1829, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 16 March, 1831, to the Coast Guard – 11 May, 1833, and 11 Oct. 1834, to the command of the Lapwing and Greyhound Revenue-cruizers – 30 June, 1836, again to the Coast
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1810, p. 1330.
