1805. We first find him in the Belliqueux 64, Captain George Byng,[1] under whom he served on shore, as a volunteer, with the marine brigade, at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, in Jan. 1806, and afterwards on the East India station. On the 26th Aug. 1807, he commanded a boat in an affray with two Malay proas, on which occasion Mr. Turner, acting lieutenant, and six men were killed. His subsequent gallant conduct as first lieutenant of the Piedmontaise frigate. Captain Charles Foote, at the storming of the defences of Banda-Neira, the principal of the Dutch Spice Islands, was duly represented by the senior officer, Captain (now Sir Christopher) Cole.[2]
On the 22d Nov. 1813, Lieutenant Carew was appointed to the Rodney 74, Captain Charles Inglis; in which ship he continued until promoted to the command of the Jasper sloop, June 7th, 1814.
In Aug. 1816, the Jasper accompanied the expedition destined against Algiers to Gibraltar; from whence she returned home with Lord Exmouth’s despatches. On the night of the 19th Jan. 1817, she was totally wrecked, in Plymouth Sound, when of 67 persons on board, including Mr. Edward Smith (master and commanding officer), Mr. Robert Marshall (purser), Mr. Godfrey Martin (master’s-mate), and Messrs. William Doles and S.W. Williams (midshipmen), with fifteen females, all but two men perished. The storm which caused her destruction is thus spoken of in the “Plymouth Telegraph:”
- ↑ The late Viscount Torrington.
- ↑ See Vol. II. Part II. p. 508.
