by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Preston… (1823)
“ Lucia, in 1794; and after the capture of the latter island, was promoted from a Lieutenancy in the Boyne of 98 guns, to the command of the Rattlesnake sloop of war, in which vessel he returned to England with the officers who were charged with the official accounts of that conquest. He afterwards commanded the Termagant sloop; and on the 13th June 1796, was posted into la Mignonne of 32 guns, from which ship he removed into the Blanche, another frigate of the same class. ”
