Biographia navalis; or, Impartial memoirs of the lives ... of officers of the navy of Great Britain from ... 1660, Volume 61798 |
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Page 525 - In 1791 he was promoted to the rank of Commander, and appointed to the...
Page 377 - June following he was created a peer of Great Britain, by the title of Viscount Whitworth, of Adbaston, in the county of Stafford; and in August succeeded the Duke of Richmond as viceroy of Ireland.
Page 14 - ... of the line; happily without doing us any material injury ; and at four in the afternoon he made a...
Page 135 - The increasing damage requiring still more to be done, the admiral directed all the guns on the upper deck, the shot, both on that and the lower deck, with various heavy stores, to be thrown overboard.
Page 175 - Jones, he was elected president of the Asiatic society, in which capacity he delivered a eulogy on his predecessor, which was printed in the Transactions of the society, as are several others of Mr. Shore's papers. In 1793, he was made a baronet, and, some time after his return, in 1797, he was created a peer of Ireland, by the title of baron Teignmouth. He has given to the world Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir W. Jones (4to., 1801), and the Works of Sir W.
Page 68 - ... our boats were boarding her; another ketch, of ten guns, which cut her cables and endeavoured to put to fea, was taken; and the third ketch •with the fmaller veflels were all forced on Ihore, the fnow only efcaping into the harbour, afieg having thrown every thing overboard to lighten her.
Page 19 - I could reach the quarter-deck, the (In p gave a great flroke upon the ground, and the fea broke all over her. Juft after this I could perceive the land rocky, rugged, and uneven about two cable's length from us. The (hip lying with her broadfide to windward the mafts foon went overboard, carrying fome men with them. It is...
Page 112 - Peace was concluded shortly after Lord Howe's return from performing this important service; and in January, 1783, he was nominated First Lord of the Admiralty. That office, in the succeeding April, he resigned to Lord Keppel, but was re-appointed on the 30th of December in the same year. On the 24th of September, 1787, he was advanced to the rank of Admiral of the White ; and in July, 1788, he finally quitted his station at the Admiralty. In the following August he was created an Earl of Great Britain....
Page 512 - ... cutter. When night came on, I formed the fleet in a line of battle a-head, and ordered the Venus and Greyhound frigates to keep between his Majesty's and the enemy's fleets, to watch their motions, which was admirably well attended to by that good and veteran officer, Captain Ferguson.
Page 54 - Actseon remained fast till the next morning, when the captain and officers thought proper to scuttle and set her on fire.