by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Reynolds… (1823)
“ On the next day, the Hero 74, Captain James Newman Newman, met a similar fate on the Haak sand, near the Texel, with the loss of all her crew, except 12 men; making a total of nearly 2000 officers and men thus entombed in a watery grave. ”
by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Reynolds… (1823)
“ George 98, on his return from the Baltic, Dec. 24, 1811 [1] . This officer was made a Lieutenant in Sept. 1801; and we first find him serving as such on board the Niobe frigate. Captain, now Lieutenant-Governor, Loring, at the capture of le Néarque French corvette. Mar. 28, 1806 [2] . His promotion to the rank of commander took place on the East India station, Oct. 3, 1810. By reference to pp. 354–356 of Vol. II. Part I. it will be seen that he highly distinguished himself at the reduction of Java, in 1811. He subsequently commanded the Bucephalus frigate. ”
