Captain Warren’s next appointment was to the Vesuvius bomb, fitting at Portsmouth. His post commission bears date April 29, 1802.
In the summer of 1805, he was selected by Rear-Admiral Domett to serve as his Flag-Captain in the Channel fleet; but ill health obliging that officer to give up the idea of going to sea at that period, the Glory of 98 guns, which had been fitted for his reception, was ordered to receive the flag of Rear-Admiral Stirling, under whom Captain Warren served in the action between Sir Robert Calder and M.Villeneuve, on the 22d July in the same year. The following are extracts from the Rear-Admiral’s letter to the commander-in-chief, dated July 24.
“The great object I had in view was to obey your orders, by keeping in a compact line, whilst the signal for that purpose remained in force; and therefore, as the Raisonable closed with you, my Captain took care that nothing could pass between her and this ship. * * * * We had only 1 man killed and 4 wounded; * * * *. I have great pleasure in bearing testimony to the zeal of Captain Warren and his officers, and feel much confidence from the good conduct of the crew belonging to the ship where my flag is flying, if our good fortune should again lead us against the foes of our country.”
In the ensuing year, Captain Warren accompanied Rear-Admiral Stirling to the Rio de la Plata, as a passenger, on board the Sampson 64; and on his arrival off Maldonado, he assumed the command of that officer’s flag-ship, the Diadem, of similar force. His services during the siege of Monte Video, on which occasion the Diadem was frequently left with only 30 men on board, were duly acknowledged in the naval and military dispatches announcing the capture of that fortress, an account of which will be found in our first volume, at p. 406, et seq.
Some time after his return from South America, Captain Warren was appointed to the Bellerophon 74 bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Lord Gardner, in the North Sea. We subsequently find him on the Baltic station, where he was very actively employed under the orders of Sir James Saumarez, Bart.[1]
- ↑ An account of the destruction of a Russian battery by the Bellerophon’s boats, will be found under the head of Commander Robert
