WILLIAM COBBE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Passed his examination, and was made a lieutenant, in Nov. 1809. He obtained the rank of commander on the 7th June, 1814; and died near Dublin, July 8th, 1831, aged 40 years.
JOHN TRACEY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was wounded, while serving as master’s-mate, on board the Ardent 64, Captain R. R. Burgess, at the memorable battle of Camperdown, Oct, 11th, 1797. He obtained his first commission on the 6th Oct. 1800; and commanded the Princess Augusta, a small hired cutter, of eight guns and about thirty men, in an action with a French privateer, of fourteen guns and full of men, near the mouth of the river Tees, June 13th, 1804. During this engagement, which lasted nearly four hours, the Princess Augusta received several shot near the water’s edge, and was much shattered in her rigging, but had not a man killed, and only three of her little crew wounded. The enemy sheered off on perceiving the approach of two small vessels, manned with sea-fencibles, from Redcar.
On the 28th Jan. 1807, Lieutenant Tracey captured the Jena privateer, of four guns and thirty men. He also retook her prize, a Prussian ship, laden with timber, and bound to London. In the course of the same year, he was removed from the Princess Augusta into the Linnet brig, of fourteen guns and sixty men; in which vessel he made the following captures:
Le Courier, of 18 guns and 60 men, taken off Cape Barfleur, after a running fight of an hour and forty minutes, during which she had her second captain killed, and three men wounded, Jan. 16th, 1808. Foudroyant, of 10 guns and 25 men, taken off Cherbourgh, Aug. 30th, 1808. Petit Charles, 26 armed men on board, but with no guns mounted, taken off the Start, May 29th, 1812.
On the 25th Feb. 1813, being then in the chops of the Channel, the wind blowing hard, Lieutenant Tracey had the
