by John Marshall

“ Bremer, then serving under Captain Jonathan Faulknor, in the Proselyte 32, at Quebec, was discharged into the Boreas 28, Captain Horatio Nelson, for a passage to the Leeward Islands, where he appears to have been principally employed in the Berbice schooner, tender to the Adamant 60, flag-ship of Sir Richard Hughes, commander-in-chief, with whom he returned home in the autumn of 1786. ”

“ Bremer remained on shore from that period until April 15th, 1782, when he joined the Crocodile 24, Captain Albemarle Bertie, on the Downs station. Whilst in this ship, he was blown up and severely burnt, during an action with a Dunkirk privateer of 32 guns. ”

“ Bligh, on the North Sea station; – to the superintendence of a signal station on the coast of Suffolk; – to the command of the Constant gun-brig; – to the sea-fencible service, at Looe, in Cornwall; – to the command of the Chance cutter, on the Portsmouth station; – to that of the Suffolk prison-ship, moored in Portchester Lake; – to be acting-agent of transports in the expedition against Guadaloupe; – to serve as supernumerary lieutenant of several ships on the Leeward Islands’ station, where he continued until advanced to his present rank, Aug. ”