16, in which vessel he served on the south-east coast of America from 28 April, 1843, until the close of 1847.
REED. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Nehemiah John Reed entered the Navy, 20 Nov. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Pompée 74, Capt. Rich. Dacres, in which ship he served under the flag of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith at the passage of the Dardanells in Feb. 1807, and, if we mistake not, accompanied the expedition against Copenhagen. After an attachment of a few weeks to the Victory 100, at Chatham, he joined, in March, 1808, the Foudroyant 80, bearing the flag of Sir W. S. Smith on the coast of Brazil; where, in May, 1809, he removed, as Midshipman, to the President 38, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg. He returned to England in the early part of 1810 in the Elizabeth 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Curzon; and between June in that year and Oct. 1815 was employed on the Cape of Good Hope, Mediterranean, and Home stations, in the Astraea of 42 guns and 271 men, Capt. C. M. Schomberg, Galatea 42, Capt. Woodley Losack, Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Sir W. S. Smith, Castilian sloop, Capt. David Braimer, and Towey 24, Capt. Hew Steuart. On 20 May, 1811, being in the Astraea, and in company off Madagascar with the Phoebe and Galatea, frigates similar in force to that ship, and 18-gun brig Racehorse, he assisted – after a long and warmly-contested action with the French 40-gun frigates Renommée, Clorinde, and Néreide, and a loss to the Astraea of 2 killed and 16 wounded – at the capture of the Renommée, and, on 25 of the same month, of the Néreide and the settlement of Tamatave. In Oct. 1815 he took up a commission dated 11 of the preceding March. He has since been on half-pay.
REEVE. (Commander, 1830. f-p., 26; h-p., 22.)
John Reeve entered the Navy, 17 May, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Agamemnon 64, Capt. Robt. Devereux Fancourt, under whom he fought as Midshipman at the battle of Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801. Being paid off in April, 1802, he next, in March, 1803, joined the Diligence sloop, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, in which vessel he was for two years and three months employed in the North Sea, in the Baltic, and off Boulogne. In Aug. 1805 he was again received on board the Agamemnon, and while in that ship, which was commanded in succession by Capts. John Harvey, Sir Edw. Berry, Jos. Spear, and Jonas Rose, he was afforded an opportunity of sharing under Sir E. Berry in the glories of Trafalgar, and, as Master’s Mate, in the action off St. Domingo,6 Feb. 1806. After serving for 10 months as a Supernumerary-Midshipman in the Northumberland 74, flag-ship of Sir Alex. Cochrane in the West Indies, for two as Acting-Lieutenant in the Dart and Lily sloops, Capts. John Buller and Wm. Henry Shirreff, again for four as Supernumerary-Midshipman with Sir A. Cochrane in the Belleisle 74, and a second time as Acting- Lieutenant in the Lily, part of the force employed at the reduction of the Danish islands, he was confirmed a Lieutenant, 22 Feb. 1808, in the Circe, Capt. Hugh Pigot. He invalided in the course of the following month; and was subsequently appointed – 10 April, 1809, to L’Aimable 32, Capts. Lord Geo. Stuart and John Chas. Woolcombe, under the former of whom he assisted, in the ensuing July, at the capture of Cuxhaven, the destruction of a well-constructed battery of 4 12-pounders, commanding the river Weser, and the expulsion, after a march of 28 miles, of the French from Gessendorf, a service for which, in common with the others engaged, he received the thanks of the Admiralty – 11 May, 1812, as First (after 15 months of half-pay), to the Prometheus sloop, Capts. Hercules Robinson and Wm. Bateman Dashwood, employed on the North American station and off Cherbourg – next, in 1815-16, to the Prince 98, Queen Charlotte 100, Boyne 98, and Queen Charlotte again, all flag-ships at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Thornsbrough, under whom he served for three years and three months as First-Lieutenant without promotion (!) – 7 Nov. 1818, to the command, on the Home station, of the Starling 10, in which vessel he remained about three years – 12 Dec. 1822, again as Senior, to the Briton 46, Capt. Sir Murray Maxwell, fitting for the Pacific, whence in 1826 he returned, bringing with him despatches across the Isthmus of Darien – and, 18 Sept. 1828, with the same rank, to the Shannon 46, Capt. Benj. Clement, whom he accompanied to Jamaica. On 2 Feb. 1830, having, as we have shown, filled for about 11 years the post of First-Lieutenant in various ships, he was at length advanced to the rank he now holds. His last appointment was, 15 Dec. 1837, to the Lily 16, fitting for the coast of Africa, whence he came home and was paid off in the spring of 1839.
Commander Reeve married, 8 Sept, 1818, Miss Emma Caplin, of Charlton, co. Sussex.
REEVE. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Samuel Reeve entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 24 June, 1830; and while serving in the West Indies as Midshipman of the Columbine 18 and Blanche 46, Capts. Henry Ommanney Love and Arthur Farquhar, was employed on shore during the insurrection of the blacks at Jamaica in 1832. He passed his examination 6 Dec. 1831; and after serving for some time on the lakes of Canada as Mate in the Niagara 20, Capt. Williams Sandom, was made Lieutenant into that vessel 14 June, 1842. He returned home in 1843; and has since been on half-pay. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
REID. (Lieut., 1820. f-p., 15; h-p., 24.)
Andrew Reid, born 15 March, 1788, at Edinburgh, is third son of John Reid, Esq., of Glasgow.
This officer (who had previously served as a Midshipman and Mate in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s service) entered the Navy, 26 Dec. 1808, as Ordinary, on board the Mercurius 18, Capt. Thos. Renwick, employed at first off the coast of Spain, and next in the Baltic; where, from Aug. 1809 until April, 1812, he served in the Erebus 18, Capt. Wm. Antridge. He then removed to the Chatham 74, Capt. Graham Moore, but, rejoining the Erebus in a few weeks, continued attached to that vessel under Capts. Antridge, Henry Jas. Lyford, John Forbes, David Ewen Bartholomew, and Fras. Le Hunte, until Sept. 1815. In 1814 he accompanied, and was wounded in, the brilliant expedition against Alexandria. He also took part in the attacks made upon Baltimore and New Orleans. After serving for nearly two years as Admiralty-Midshipman in the Tonnant 80, flagship of Sir Benj. Hallowell at Cork, he joined in that capacity, in Jan. 1818, the Trent hired brig, Lieut.-Commander John Franklin, and soon afterwards sailed, in company with the Dorothea, Capt. David Buchan, on a perilous voyage of discovery to the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen. On his return towards the close of the same year he was received on board the Bulwark 74, flag-ship of Sir John Gore in the river Medway. In the spring of 1819 he again, in the Griper brig, Lieut.-Commander Matthew Liddon, proceeded, with an expedition under the present Sir Edw. Parry, to the polar regions, where he penetrated to long. 113° 54' 43" W. within the Arctic circle, and became thereby entitled to a portion of a parliamentary reward of 5000l. He returned to England in Nov. 1820, and on 26 of the following month was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His last appointment was, 1 Jan. 1821, to the Fury bomb, commanded by Capt. Parry himself, with whom he made a fresh voyage to the frozen seas in search of a north-west passage. Since his arrival home in Nov. 1823 he has been on half-pay.
Lieut. Reid married, 29 Jan. 1821, Jean Anne, daughter of Charles Adamson, Esq., of North Kirkhill, co. Kmcardine. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
