by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Crofton… (1823)
“ On the 13th June, 1805, being then a lieutenant of the Cambrian frigate, Captain J. Poo Beresford, on the Halifax station, he conducted himself with great gallantry in the command of that ship’s barge at the capture of the Spanish privateer schooner Maria, of 14 guns and 60 men; on this occasion the British had 2 men killed and 2 wounded. ”
