by John Marshall

“ In the tremendous hurricane which then commenced, and continued with unabated violence for 36 hours, the Terrible was totally dismasted, and had all her boats either blown or washed away; her tiller snapped in two, and the spare one was scarcely shipped before it broke also: – in this alarming situation, and left to the fury of the storm, without a vessel of any description in sight, one of the lower-deck guns nearly got adrift, but providentially, through the active exertions of her officers and crew, the imminent danger that seemed to threaten every one on board was speedily averted. ”

“ I have the pleasure to assure you, that the officers and men employed on this service, shewed a degree of zeal and intrepidity that can only be equalled by the cool, steady conduct which I had the satisfation to observe in them, when passing through a very intricate navigation, under a constant discharge of cannon from the shore. ”

“ On the 7th Oct. 1813, Captain Stamp was appointed to the Pandora brig, of 18 guns, in which vessel, after cruising for some time on the Channel station, he escorted a fleet of merchantmen to Oporto, Lisbon, and the Mediterranean. At the close of the war with France, in 1814, he sailed from Gibraltar for Bermuda, in company with a squadron under the orders of Captain Andrew King, and a fleet of transports, having on board part of the troops recently employed against Genoa. ”