granted a pension for his wounds (since increased to £150 per annum), May 15th, 1809. He also, we believe, received a very handsome sword from the Patriotic Fund.
WILLIAM LOVE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Youngest son of the late Mr. Thomas Love, R.N. by Sarah, sister to Lovell Pennell, Esq. the paternal grandfather of Mrs. John Wilson Croker.
This officer was born at Topsham, co. Devon, in April 1764; and entered the navy in Mar. 1778, as midshipman on board the Hyaena frigate. Captain (afterwards Commodore) Edward Thompson; in which ship he visited the coast of Africa; witnessed the close of the battle between Vice-Admiral Byron and the Count D’Estaing, off Grenada, July 6th, 1779; accompanied the fleet under Sir George B. Rodney, to the relief of Gibraltar, in Jan. 1780; and was consequently present at the capture of the Carracas convoy, and the subsequent defeat of Don Juan de Langara[1]. He afterwards joined the Cumberland 74, Captain Joseph Peyton; and in Mar. 1781, again sailed for Gibraltar, with the fleet under Vice-Admiral Darby[2]. On his return home he joined the Prothée 64, Captain Charles Buckner, of which ship, then about to accompany Rodney to the West Indies, his father was serving as master.
On the glorious 12th of April, 1782, the Prothée had five men killed and twenty-five wounded. Almost the first shot that struck her, dismounted one of the quarter-deck guns, the splinters of which shattered Mr. Love’s leg and thigh, and slightly wounded his son in the knee: the former, after undergoing amputation close to the hip joint, was ordered a passage home in the Russell 74, Captain (now Lord De) Saumarez; and the latter received Sir George B. Rodney’s permission to accompany him thither, but was nearly prevented
