Royal Navy 1790's

[Rutha1636]

Once again - thank you.
The memorandum cited in the original posting showed a listed of all his ships from the Dragon in 1798 to the Prospero in 1814 and their commanders.  Interestingly the ship after Dragon was Foudroyant under Admiral Lord Keith and Capts Philip Bever and John Searle.  He was second gunner on this ship in the Mediterranean.
He was also entitled to the Egypt medal, but he had died by the time this was issued.
Of interest maybe is that we have 2 logbooks he kept as a midshipman (on Zealand and Monarch) as well as 2 swords he had as a Lieutenant.  One of these swords is the Nelson Navy sword.  Nelson prescribed a lion on the handle and the navy anchor.  These are held by a cousin in Edinburgh.  I tried to post a picture but they are too large for this site.

I will keep looking for information pre 1798, now as an ordinary seaman.

Regards Ruth

[Regorian]

He served on famous ships and under famous admirals. I think the Foudroyant survived into the 20th Century. Swords, were they awarded by The Patriotic Fund?

Do you know about bomb ketches? I was surprised a Captain RN commanded one, perhaps Captain Godsby commanded several of them. He was married in 1808 according to extracts from Wikipedia. 1813/14 North Sea, this probably means shore bombardment of somewhere like Hamburg. The French left garrisons in such strong points, despite being in retreat before the Russians.