by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Luce, John (1823)
“ Was made a lieutenant in 1793, and served as first lieutenant of the Orion 74, Captain Sir James Saumarez, at the battle of Cape St. Vincent; on which occasion he took possession of the Spanish 3-decker Salvador-del-Mundo. The following is appended to a biographical memoir of Sir James Saumarez, published in 1801:– “The mind shrinks with horror in relating the accumulated sufferings which the wounded on board that ship endured. There were no less than 52 lying on the decks with wounds that required amputation. ”
