A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Shirreff, Patrick
SHIRREFF. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 33.)
Patrick Shirreff entered the Navy, 26 July, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Experiment 44, Capt. Geo. Chas. Mackenzie; on accompanying whom to the West Indies in the Wolfe 18, he was wrecked on Heneaga, one of the Bahama Islands, 5 Sept. 1806. A severe injury sustained on that occasion in the left leg (the effects of which he feels to this day) obliged him (after he had been for nearly four months employed in the Shark sloop, Capt. Henry Boys, and Cuba 36, Capt. Fred. Langford) to invalid home, in Jan. 1807, on board the Pelican 16, Capt. Wm. Ward. He subsequently, from Jan. 1808 until May, 1815, served, on the Home and North American stations, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Texel and Ardent 64’s, both commanded by Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon, Childers sloop, Capt. Joseph Packwood, Ruby store-ship, Master-Commander David Ferrie, Goliath 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, and Tonnant 80, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. On leaving the ship last-mentioned, in which he had taken part in the expeditions to the Chesapeake and New Orleans, he took up a commission dated 9 Feb. 1815. He has since been on half-pay.