ship, bearing the flag of Sir Isaac Coffin, at Portsmouth; in 1810, he was appointed flag-lieutenant to Sir Roger Curtis, the commander-in-chief at that port; and in June, 1811, to the acting command of the Zephyr sloop: he obtained the rank of commander on the 28th April, 1812; and died in Jan. 1828.
ARTHUR M‘MEEKAN, Esq.
[Commander.]
We first find this officer commanding a few borrowed and miserably equipped gun-boats, employed in the defence of Cadiz, previous to the establishment, by Sir Richard G. Keats, of the “fire-eating” flotilla, alluded to in p. 131 of Vol. III. Part I. On one occasion, the force under his directions sustained very considerable loss, in an attempt to regain possession of some prison-ships, which, their cables having been cut by the Frenchmen confined in them, had drifted on shore, close under the besiegers’ batteries. He was afterwards appointed first lieutenant of the Maidstone frigate. Captain George Burdett; and, on the 4th April, 1812, with the boats of that ship, he captured, off Cape de Gatt, the French privateer Martinet, of two guns and fifty-one men. He obtained his present, rank on the 7th of the following month; and subsequently commanded the Griper sloop, for a period of nearly two years.
DANIEL ROBERTS, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made lieutenant into the Phoenix frigate. Captain Zachary Mudge, July 12th, 1809; promoted to the rank of commander, May 16th, 1812; appointed to the Meteor bomb, June 23d, 1815 ; and to the Hydra troop-ship, Sept. 15th, following.
