by John Marshall

“ The Ramillies formed part of the squadron under Sir John B. Warren, at the capture of the French 80-gun ship Marengo and frigate Belle Poule, the former bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Linois, Mar. 13th, 1806 [1] . She afterwards escorted a large fleet of merchantmen to the West Indies, and, in Dec. 1807, was present at the surrender of the Danish islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix [2] .
In April, 1808, Mr. Jervois was received on board the Belleisle 74, flag-ship of the Hon. Sir Alexander I. Cochrane ”

“ The Princess Charlotte was next ordered to the Leeward Islands, where, Captain Gardner having invalided, Mr. Jervois joined the Ramillies 74, Captain (afterwards Vice-Admiral) Francis Pickmore, in which ship he returned home towards the end of 1805. ”

“ Francis F. Gardner, in the Princess Charlotte 38, Kiiby 64, and Gelykhied 68, on the Irish and North Sea stations. The former ship bore the flag of the first Lord Gardner, at Cork, during the peace of Amiens, and was subsequently recommissioned by his son, with whom Mr. Jervois sailed for Jamaica in Sept. 1804. Whilst on that station, he assisted at the capture of numerous valuable Spanish merchant vessels and a French privateer brig, le Regulus, of fourteen guns and eighty four men. ”