JOHN WHITE PRITCHARD, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was aide-de-camp to the Earl of Northesk at the memorable battle of Trafalgar. He passed his examination in Dec. 1807; obtained his first commission on the 22d Sept. 1808; and subsequently served in the Derwent sloop and Akbar frigate, as agent of transports, and as senior lieutenant of the Britannia first rate, flag-ship of Lord Northesk, when commander-in-chief at Plymouth. He was advanced to his present rank on the 24th Jan. 1828.
This officer married, July 9th, 1810, Miss J. M. Appleby, of Soberton.
HUGH NURSE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Entered the royal navy in 1809, as midshipman on board the Blake 74, Captain (now Sir Edward) Codrington, under whom he served, principally on the Mediterranean station, for a period of four years[1]. In 1813, we find him proceeding to North America, where he participated in much active service under the late Commodore Joseph Nourse, then commanding the Severn frigate[2]. The last ship in which he served as a petty officer was the Tyne 26, Captain William M‘Kenzie Godfrey, on the Jamaica station.
On the 30th Sept. 1822, the Tyne’s tender, a small hired sloop named the Eliza, mounting one 12-pounder carronade, and having on board a midshipman (White), and twenty-four men, under the command of Mr. Nurse, was attacked at her anchorage in La Guahava by a piratical schooner, mounting six carriage guns, with a complement of forty men, and a felucca, the Firme Union, of five guns and thirty-five men:– the result will be seen by the following, hitherto unpublished, statement:–
- ↑ See Vol. I. Part II. pp. 636 and 872, et seq.
- ↑ See Vol. II. Part II. p. 880.
