Hymn Book.” He died at Devonport, after an illness of only twelve hours duration, in Aug. 1832, aged 51 years.
GEORGE GORDON, Esq.
[Commander.]
Served as midshipman on board the Blanche frigate. Captain Sir Thomas Lavie, with whom he was wrecked and taken prisoner, near Ushant, in the night of March 4, 1807. On this disastrous occasion, about 45 seamen and marines perished; one-third of whom through drunkenness[1]. He was made a lieutenant on the 26th Nov. 1810; appointed to the flag-ship of the commander-in-chief at Plymouth, June 4th, 1811; and promoted from her to his present rank, Jan, 9th, 1815.
DAVID BOYD, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 30th May, 1800. We first find him commanding the Gracieuse schooner a tender to the flag ship of Vice-Admiral J. R. Dacres, on the Jamaica station, where, in company with the Gipsy schooner, he captured, after a running fight, the Spanish privateer schooner Juliana, mounting one long brass 18-pounder amid-ships, and four 12-pounder carronades, with a complement of 83 men, Dec. 27th, 1807. The enemy’s loss consisted of eight men killed and six wounded; the British had only one man wounded.
Lieutenant Boyd subsequently commanded the Antelope and St. Lawrence schooners; in the former of which he returned home from Jamaica, about the close of 1809; and from the latter he was promoted to the command of the Alban sloop of war, Jan. 17th, 1815.
- ↑ See Nav. Chron. Vol. 17. p. 319.
