by John Marshall

“ Lieutenant Askew was appointed to the Dictator 64, Captain James Macnamara; and on the 30th December, 1806, he was removed from that ship to the Thalia 36, then commanded by Captain James Walker, on the Guernsey station, but afterwards by Captain Thomas Manby, and employed in protecting the Greenland fishery. ”

“ While serving under the latter officer, he successively visited Davis’s Strait, the coast of Labrador, Newfoundland, the Western Islands, Cadiz, and Gibraltar [4] . Under his successor. Captain James Giles Vashon, he served in the expedition to the Scheldt, in the year 1809. ”