A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Parker, Frederick Augustus Hargood
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PARKER. (Commander, 1814.)
Frederick Augustus Hargood Parker was actively employed, while stationed in the Baltic, in affording protection to convoys passing through the Belts; and was at one time detached every night for nearly five weeks on boat-service. He was often in consequence engaged in action with the enemy’s gun-vessels. When First-Lieutenant of the Nightingale he united in the attack of 1807 upon Copenhagen. On the surrender of the Danish fleet he escorted to Yarmouth the officer charged with the delivery of Admiral Gambier’s despatches; and on his return he assisted in fitting the Danish prizes for sea, and in then conducting them to England.