A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Schultz, George Augustus
SCHULTZ. (Retired Commander, 1839. f-p., 16; h-p., 35.)
George Augustus Schultz was born 26 June 1785.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Sept. 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sandwich[1] 98, Capt. Jas. Robt. Mosse, guard-ship at the Nore; where he removed, in Sept. 1797, to the Zealand 64, Capt. Thos. Parr. Becoming Midshipman, in the early part of 1799, of the Madras 54, Capts. John Dilkes and Chas. Hare, he sailed in that ship with convoy for China. He subsequently, in the Asia 64, Capt. John Dawson, accompanied the expedition sent to the Baltic for the purpose of breaking the Northern Confederacy. From Sept. 1802 (four months after he had been discharged from the latter ship) until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Jan. 1806, we find him employed in the North Sea in the Diligence 12, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, and Princess of Orange 74, Capts. Chas. Cunningham and Thos. Rogers. His last appointments afloat were – 3 March, 1806, to the Nassau 64, Capt. Robt. Campbell – 31 May, 1808, to the Parthian 10, Capts. Geo. Balderston, Rich. Harward, Hon. Henry Dawson, and Tomkinson, with whom he served in the Mediterranean and North Sea, until obliged by ill health to invalid in Oct. 1811 – and 28 Feb. 1812, to the Venerable 74, Capts. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, Sir Home Popham, and David Milne, stationed, chiefly, on the north coast of Spain. While in the Nassau, which ship was for a long time employed in blockading the Texel, and formed part of the expedition to Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807, Mr. Schultz (on her being extricated from a mass of ice in which she had been blocked up during the whole winter) assisted, 22 March, 1808, in company with the Stately 64, at the capture and destruction, on the coast of Zealand, of the Danish 74-gun ship Prindts Christian Frederic, after a running fight of great length and obstinacy, in which the Nassau sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 16 wounded. In the Parthian he fought in an action with three French ships-of-war, and accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren in 1809. He left the Venerable 9 June, 1813, and accepted his present rank 5 Jan. 1839.
Commander Schultz holds an appointment in the Stamp Office at Wisbech, in Cambridgeshire. He married 26 Nov. 1811, and has issue four children.
- ↑ The Sandwich, as is known, was the ship which, during the mutiny at the Nore, bore the flag of the notorious Parker. Mr. Schultz was permitted on that occasion (through the application of a Lieutenant, Geo. Forbes, under whose care he had been placed) to go on shore, after having been sent for into the Admiral’s cabin and questioned in presence of all the delegates. As soon as the outbreak had subsided he returned to the ship. Immediately prior to Parker’s execution, of which he was an eye-witness, his cot being directly over the one occupied by the latter, he had an opportunity of contemplating him while engaged nearly the whole night in writing. At about 11 p.m. the unhappy man gave him his prayer-book with these words – “Here, youngster, is a prayerbook for you.”