by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Hamilton… (1823)
“ This officer obtained Post rank May 18, 1779, and commanded the Apollo frigate, at the close of the American war. In 1793, he was appointed to the Canada of 74 guns. On the 6th Nov., in the following year, that ship, in company with the Alexander, of the same force, commanded by the late Sir Richard Rodney Bligh, having escorted the Lisbon and Mediterranean convoys to a certain distance, and being on their return to port, fell in with a French squadron under Rear-Admiral Neuilly. ”
