2227971Royal Naval Biography — Sanders, GeorgeJohn Marshall


GEORGE SANDERS, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1809.]

This officer was made a Commander April 29, 1802; and appointed to the Falcon of 14 guns, about Mar. 1804. On the 10th June, in the following year, we find him engaged with a division of the Havre flotilla, and the batteries between that place and Fecamp; on which occasion his sloop suffered considerably in her sails and rigging, but had not a man slain, and only four persons wounded.

The Falcon was subsequently employed affording protection to the Baltic trade, and co-operating with the garrison of Dantzic, during the siege of that city by the French army under Marshal Lefebvre. The only correct account of the exertions made by the British naval force to succour the brave Prussians that has ever been published, will be found at pp. 228–233 of Suppl. Part I.

Captain Sanders was next appointed to the Bellette of 18 guns, in which brig he captured the following armed vessels, on the Leeward Islands station:

Jalouse French privateer, of 4 guns and 75 men; Confiance privateer, pierced for 16 guns, but mounting only 7, with a complement of 70 men; and the Revanche letter of marque, of 6 guns and 44 men, laden with provisions, from Bourdeaux bound to Guadaloupe. This latter vessel, pierced for 18 guns, had been a very successful privateer all the war, and was intended to be again fully armed and manned, as soon as her cargo was discharged.

Captain Sanders obtained post rank June 2, 1809.

Agents.– Messrs Stilwell.