by John Marshall

“ Towards the close of 1807, Captain Acklom was appointed to the Ranger sloop, in which vessel he appears to have been very actively employed on the Baltic station, for nearly six years. Among the enemies’ vessels captured and destroyed by him during that period were three French and the same number of Danish privateers. His handsome conduct, in volunteering to work the Ranger through the ice, from Gottenburgh to Anholt, for the purpose of rescuing a shipwrecked crew, will be noticed in our memoir of Captain Henry James Lyford. ”

“ We should here observe that he was employed on shore at Toulon during the occupation of that place by the allied forces under Admiral Lord Hood, and that he was consequently engaged in a variety of harassing services previous to his receiving a commission. ”