by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Blow, John Aitken (1823)
“ We next find him commanding the Charger gun-brig, in which vessel he captured a Dutch privateer, on the North Sea station. May 28th, 1805. He was subsequently employed in the Baltic, and attached to the fleet under Admiral Gambier, at the siege of Copenhagen. In June 1808, the Charger formed part of a small convoying squadron, one of which, the Turbulent gun-brig. Lieutenant George Wood, was captured by a Danish flotilla, near the south end of Saltholm, on the 9th of that month [2] . ”
