A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sloly, James
SLOLY. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 1 1; h-p., 34.)
James Sloly entered the Navy, in Oct. 1802, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the Nimble cutter, Lieut.- Commander Jeremiah Coghlan, stationed in the Channel, where he removed, as Fst.-cl. Vol., in Sept. 1803, to the Tonnant 80, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew. He was afterwards, from 9 May, 1804, until his return to England in Nov. 1812, employed in the East Indies, as L.M. and Midshipman, on board the Culloden 74, bearing the flag of the officer last mentioned. Fox 32, Capts. Henry Hart and Wm. Wells, Illustrious 74, Commodore Wm. Robt. Broughton, and Doris 36, Capt. Wm. Jones Lye; and from 11 May until 6 Oct. 1815, again in the Channel, in the Myrmidon 20, Capt. Robt. Gambier. In the Culloden he assisted at the capture and destruction, 27 Nov. 1806, of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs-of-war, and about 20 armed and other merchant-vessels lying in Batavia Roads; and at the annihilation at Griessee, 11 Dec. 1807, of the dockyard and stores, and of all the men-of-war remaining to Holland in India. In the Illustrious he co-operated in the reduction of the island of Java. On leaving the Myrmidon in Oct. 1815 he was presented with a commission dated 13 of the preceding March. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Sloly married, 3l Jan. 1829, Emma, eldest daughter of B. Gribble, Esq., of Walworth.