by John Marshall

“ It was in the storm to which we allude, that the Calypso sloop, Captain W. Venour, then under the orders of Captain Brisbane, was run down and sunk by one of the homeward bound convoy; not an individual on board of either escaping.
The Entreprenante, after having had the honor of attending on King George III., at Weymouth, in company with the Crescent and AEolus frigates, was employed in escorting supplies to the blockading squadrons off l’Orient and Havre, near which latter port she made several captures. In July 1805, she was attached to the Mediterranean station ”

“ Vincent, were not mere spectators on that occasion; they participated in the engagement, by exchanging several broadsides with various Spanish ships of the line. After this great victory, and while the said sloop was under repair at Gibraltar, Lieutenant Young volunteered his services, and commanded a gun-boat in two successful actions with a Franco-Spanish flotilla, of superior force, sent from Algeziras, to cut oft’ some valuable British and other merchantmen making for the rock. ”

“ Whilst thus employed, be witnessed the battle off Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14th, 1797; and assisted in capturing two French privateers, le Pluvier and la Carnarde. In Oct. 1798, he was removed, at Naples, to the Colossus 74, Captain George Murray; with whom he suffered shipwreck in St. Mary’s harbour, Scilly, Dec. 10th following [1] .
Lieutenant Young’s next appointments were, – in April 1799, to be first of the Savage sloop. Captain Norborne Thompson, then employed on the Boulogne station, and afterwards in occasional co-operation with the British forces at the Helder ”