by John Marshall

“ I have great pleasure in bearing testimony to the intrepidity which was displayed in attacking so superior a force, especially when under cover of their numerous batteries on shore, and feel myself bound injustice to Lieutenant Shippard, for his gallant conduct this day, to recommend him to your lordship as an officer highly deserving every thing I can say in his favour. ”

“ Robert Clegram to be severely reprimanded, and Captain Alexander Shippard, the other officers, ship’s company, and pilot, to be acquitted, and they are hereby acquitted accordingly. It is the opinion of the Court, that if Captain Shippard’s excellent arrangements had been duly attended to, the loss of his Majesty’s ship would have been avoided.”
Captain Shippard married a daughter of Admiral Sir John Knight, K.C.B. His eldest son, who was a student at the Royal Naval College, died in Jan. 1811. One of his daughters is the wife of Lieutenant Alexander Buchanan, R.N.
Agent.– J. Copland, Esq. ”

“ The loss of the former ship near Point Mille Vache, in the river St. Lawrence, Oct. 29, 1808, and the sufferings of her officers and crew, are fully described in the Naval Chronicle, Vol. XXII, pp. 49–53. ”