by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Warrand… (1823)
“ Some time after this, he was appointed to the Sealark schooner, of ten 12-pounder carronades and fifty men, in which vessel he captured, after a long and severe action, la Ville de Caen lugger privateer, of sixteen long 4-pounders and seventy-five men, on the Plymouth station, July 21 st, 1812. The enemy’s loss amounted to fifteen or sixteen men killed, and about the same number wounded ”
