Jamaica station; from whence he returned home, passenger on board the Rattlesnake, in company with the Duke of Manchester and suite, Aug. 12th, 1827. His promotion to the rank of captain took place on the 12th of March preceding.
Agent.– T. Collier, Esq.
EDWARD LE CRAS THORNBROUGH, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1827.]
Is the only surviving child of Admiral Sir Edward Thornbrough, G.C.B.; and was born at Portsmouth, in the year 1795[1]. He entered the royal navy as midshipman on board the Kent 74, Captain Thomas Rogers, Feb. 14th, 1806; and served under his father’s flag, in the Prince of Wales 98, Ville de Paris 110, and Royal Sovereign of similar force, on the Mediterranean station, from June 1806, till the year 1809. He then joined the Apollo frigate. Captain Bridges Watkinson Taylor, and continued in that ship during the remainder of the war. On the 13th of Feb. 1812, he assisted in capturing under the batteries of Corsica, the French frigate-built store-ship Merinos, of 850 tons, pierced for 36 guns, mounting 20 long 8-pounders, with a complement of 126 men; of whom 6 were killed and 20 wounded. the Apollo appears not to have sustained any loss on this occasion, although, in consequence of being nearly becalmed, exposed to the fire of the batteries for above four hours. She was subsequently employed in the Adriatic, where we find her capturing the French national xebec Ulysse, of 6 guns and 56 men, attached to the Corfu flotilla. On the 21st of December in the same year, her boats and those of the Weazle, sloop, captured and blew up the strongest tower between Brindisi and Otranto, containing a telegraph, three guns, and three swivels. On the 29th of Jan. 1813, the island of Augusta, with a garrison of 139 men, surrendered to a small naval and military force
- ↑ Erratum in Vol I. Part 1. p. 172, last line but one, for Taunton read Teignton.
