was approaching from the N.E. quarter, which he had no doubt of being an enemy, and which indeed proved to be the Eurotas frigate, Captain John Phillimore[1].
La Trave had 1 man killed; her commander, Jacob Van Maren, Capitaine de Vaisseau, and Member of the Imperial Order of Reunion, the second Lieutenant, 2 Midshipman, (one of them mortally) and 24 seamen wounded. The Andromache had only her first Lieutenant[2] severely, and 1 seaman slightly wounded.
Captain Tobin was in company with Rear-Admiral Penrose on the 27th Mar. 1814, when that officer, in a most skilful and gallant manner, forced the passage of the Gironde, and anchored in that river with the Egmont 74, the Andromache, and other ships of war; an event which will be more particularly described in our memoir of Captain John Coode, C.B.
The Andromache formed part of the fleet assembled at Spithead during the visit of the allied sovereigns in June 1814; and was paid off at Deptford on the 23d of the following month.
Captain Tobin was nominated a C.B. Dec. 8, 1815. He married, in 1804, the widow of Major William Duff, of the 26th regiment, daughter of the late Captain Gordon Skelly, R.N., by whom he has one son and a daughter. Mrs. Tobin’s only child by her first husband is married to Captain Rowland Mainwaring, R.N.
Agents.– Messrs. Maude.
JAMES SANDERS, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer entered the naval service as a Midshipman on board the America, of 64 guns, commanded by his maternal uncle, the late Rear-Admiral Samuel Thompson[3], April 5,
- ↑ The Saintes at this time bore E. by S., distant 14 leagues.
- ↑ See Commander Thomas Dickinson, (b).
- ↑ Rear-Admiral Thompson, a brave officer and excellent seaman, died at Titchfield, Hants, Aug. 13, 1813, on which day he had completed his 95th year, His eldest son, Norborne, is a Captain R.N.
