Royal Naval Biography/Green, Andrew Pellet

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ANDREW PELLET GREEN, Esq.
Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and of the Swedish Military Order of the Sword.
[Post-Captain of 1814.]

This officer was made lieutenant in Aug. 1800; and he appears to have served under the late Sir Thomas Francis Freemantle, in the Ganges 74, and Neptune 98, at the battles of Copenhagen and Trafalgar, April 2, 1801, and Oct. 21, 1805[1]. His commission as commander bears date Feb. 1, 1812. During the ensuing winter he was very actively employed in the Shamrock brig, on the Downs station.

In April 1813, the Shamrock was placed under the orders of Captain John M‘Kerlie, who had previously been sent to direct the operations of the Heligoland squadron[2]. The manner



  1. The first broadside fired by the Neptune, shot away the main and mizen-masts of the Bucentaure 80, bearing Villeneuve’s flag, and doubtless killed and wounded many of her crew. After passing under that ship’s stern, Captain Freemantle hauled up, and soon found himself in a similar position a-stern of the huge Santissima Trinidada, whose main and mizen-masts likewise came down with a tremendous crash, just as the Leviathan was in the act of seconding a fire which her leader had so successfully opened [ See p. 180. ]. The Neptune then luffed up alongside the Spanish 4-decker, while the Conqueror kept up a distant fire upon her to-windward. The fore-mast of the Spaniard soon shared the fate of the others, and she lay an unmanageable wreck upon the water. At this moment Captain Freemantle had his attention suddenly called off by the movement that was making in the enemies’ van, some of the ships of which, on bearing up, raked the Neptune, and caused the principal part of the damage and loss which she sustained in the action. Her masts were all more or less injured, and her standing and running rigging much cut; she received nine shot between wind and water: 10 of her crew were killed, and 34 wounded.
  2. See p. 190 et seq.