of Lord Gambier, commander-in-chief of the Channel fleet; and afterwards the Boyne 98, bearing the flag of Sir Harry Neale, off Rochefort, in which ship he continued until July 1811. We afterwards find him on board the Barbadoes 28, Captain Rushworth, off Cherbourg.
On the 7th Sept. 1811, the Barbadoes, then in company with the Goshawk sloop, and cruising to the eastward of Cape Barfleur, fell in with seven French gun-brigs, coming from Boulogne, each mounting three long 24-pounders and a mortar, and manned with 75 men. These the Barbadoes and her consort immediately attacked and chased into Calvados, driving one of them on shore. On the following day, one of those vessels was sunk, and two others driven on the rocks, by the Hotspur frigate, Captain the Hon. Josceline Percy, which ship unfortunately grounded when within gunshot, and lay exposed to a heavy fire from the brigs and the shore for four hours, sustaining a loss of five men killed and twenty-two wounded[1].
The Barbadoes subsequently escorted a large fleet of merchantmen to Jamaica, where Captain Rushworth was prematurely cut off, June 14th, 1812, in the twenty-fifth year of his age[2]. From thence, Mr. Keele returned home in the Thetis frigate. Captain W. H. Byam, which ship was paid off at Chatham, in Sept. 1812[3]. He then joined the Java frigate. Captain Henry Lambert, fitting out for the East India station; and on the 29th Dec. following was very severely wounded in action with the United States’ ship Constitution[4]. Among the mortally wounded on this occasion was his brother Edward, only thirteen years of age,
- ↑ See Suppl. Part I. p. 187.
- ↑ Captain Rushworth was the eldest son of Edward Rushworth, Esq., by the Hon. Catherine Rushworth, daughter of the late Lord Holmes, and grandson of Captain Rushworth, R.N., who died in 1780. His remains were deposited near those of his maternal great uncle, who died at Jamaica in 1760, when commander-in-chief on that station. See Nav. Chron. vol. 28, p. 264.
- ↑ See Suppl. Part II. p. 313.
- ↑ See Vol. III. Part I. pp. 247–251.
