THOMAS VIVION, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of the late Mr. Thomas Vivion, the senior purser in H.M. navy.
This officer was made a lieutenant in 1794; and commander, while serving as first of the Royal Sovereign 110, in Oct. 1810.
GREGORY GRANT, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in 1795; and appears, by James’s Naval History, to have been wounded in an action with the Cadiz flotilla, while serving in the boats of the Prince George 98, July 3d, 1797. He was promoted to his present rank from the Royal Oak 74, in Oct. 1810; appointed to the Drake sloop, on the Heligoland station. Mar. 12th, 1812; and subsequently sent to Jamaica.
ROBERT BENJAMIN YOUNG, Esq.
[Commander.]
A son of the late Lieutenant Robert Parry Young, R.N., whose only sister was the wife of the late Admiral John Brisbane.
This officer was born at Douglas, in the Isle of Man, Sept. 15th, 1773; and first went to sea, in the Cruiser cutter, about June 1786; between which period and Sept. 1794, he served in various line-of-battle ships, on the Channel and West India stations. At the latter date he was appointed acting lieutenant of the Thorn sloop, Captain (now Sir Robert Waller) Otway, who makes honorable mention of his spirited conduct in the action between that vessel and le Courier Nationel, French corvette, ending in the capture of the latter. May 25th, 1795. He also distinguished himself on various occasions during the Carib war in the Island of St. Vincent, but particularly at the attack of Owia and Chateau-Bellair, the loss of which posts obliged the enemy to retire into the interior. On the former occasion, he commanded the party landed with
