to the capture of several fine privateers. In the Blazer he was often in action with the French flotilla in the neighbourhood of Ostend, Dunkerque, Calais, and Boulogne, and assisted, in July, 1805, in rescuing the crew of the Orestes 14, Capt. Thos. Brown, when wrecked on the Splinter Sand and exposed to the fire of the enemy. In the course of the same year he commanded a rocket-vessel in Sir Sidney Smith’s attack upon the Boulogne flotilla. On leaving the Blazer he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Skylark 16; and while in that brig (to which he was confirmed 12 June, 1807) he had charge of her boats in a running fight with a French cutter privateer of 8 guns and 48 men, whom, after having cut away her sweeps and chased her for three hours, he drove under the guns of the Skylark. On one occasion he landed at Flushing, spiked the 8 guns of a battery, and brought the guard off prisoners. His succeeding appointments were – 14 Nov. 1808, to the Termagant sloop, Capt. H. E. P. Sturt, on the Halifax station – 14 Feb. 1810, to the Saturn 74, Capt. Wm. Cumberland, attached to the force in the Baltic – in the course of 1811, to the Royal George 100, Laurestinus 24, and, as Senior, to the Orlando 36, commanded, on the Home, Mediterranean, North American, and East India stations, by Capt. John Clavell, uith whom, in 1819, he returned to England in the Malabar 74-and, 23 Aug. 1820, in the capacity last mentioned, to the Cambrian 48, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton. He was frequently, in the Saturn and her boats, engaged with the enemy’s forts and armed vessels (several of which he captured) while affording protection to the trade passing through the Great Belt. During his servitude in the Orlando he took part in many boat-affairs in the Adriatic and Chesapeake. He commanded her boats too in several skirmishes with the Malay proas in the straits of Sunda and Malacca, and once succeeded in repelling an attack made by them at night on a wrecked Indiaman, of which he had been placed in charge. In the boats of the Cambrian we find him cutting out, in the Gulf of Athens, with much spirit and judgment, a piratical schooner, carrying 2 long guns and 50 men, together with three of her prizes; besides taking three small pirate-vessels from the island of Skopelo and effecting the re-capture of an English sloop. He also assisted at the reduction of Napoli di Romania, and, at the head of a hundred seamen, landed there at the request of the Provisional Government, had the good fortune, when the troops entered the town, to save the lives of 2000 Turks, men, women, and children, who were afterwards placed on shore at Smyrna. For these services he twice received the thanks of Sir Graham Moore, the Commander-in-Chief, was presented with a sword by the Greek Provisional Government, and was advanced, 18 July, 1823, to the rank of Commander in the Dispatch sloop of 18 guns.[1] In that vessel, stationed likewise in the Mediterranean, he remained until the close of 1824. He was lastly, from 23 Nov. 1835, until April, 1838, employed, again on the station last named, as Second-Captain, in the Rodney 92, Capt. Hyde Parker. His promotion to the rank he now holds took place 15 Jan. 1838.
For his conduct in jumping overboard from the Orlando and saving the lives of four persons, Capt. Scott (who is Senior of 1838) received the thanks of the Royal Humane Society. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
SCOTT. (Captain, 1848.)
Francis Scott is son of the Rev. Alex. Scott, Rector of Bootle, co. Cumberland, whose grandfather, the Hon. Walter Scott (second son of the Earl of Tarras) was himself the great-grandfather of the present Lord Polwarth. He is nephew, by marriage, of Rear-Admiral Thos. Folliott Baugh.
This officer entered the Navy 11 July, 1822; passed his examination in 1829; obtained his first commission 11 Feb. 1835; and was appointed, 21 May following, to the Clio 16, Capt. Wm. Richardson, on the Mediterranean station; where, from 10 Nov. 1836 until promoted to the rank of Commander, 2 July, 1841, he served in the Rodney 92, Capts. Hyde Parker and Robt. Maunsell. From 9 Sept. 1843 until paid off in 1847, he commanded the Hyacinth 18 on the African and North America and West India stations. He attained his present rank 12 Aug. 1848.
Capt. Scott married, 3 Aug. 1842, Frances Magdalene, second daughter of Henry Harvey, Esq., of Hill House, Streatham. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
SCOTT. (Captain, 1830. f-p., 16; h-p., 33.)
George Scott was born in 1783.
This officer entered the Navy, 9 June, 1798, as Midshipman, on board the Perseus bomb, Capt. Jas. Oswald, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; where, from Aug. 1799 until March, 1802, he was employed, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Minotaur 74, Capt. Thos. Louis. In the Perseus he assisted at the bombardment of Alexandria, at the capture of Naples, and the blockade of Malta. While belonging to the Minotaur he served with a detachment of boats, 10 in number, containing about 100 officers and men, commanded by Capt. Philip Beaver, and assisted, on the morning of 21 May, 1800, in boarding and capturing, after a desperate combat, the Prima galley (one of a numerous flotilla) rowing 52 oars, carrying 2 extremely long brass 36-pounders, several smaller pieces, and 257 men, and lying chain-moored under the guns of the two moles and the city bastions in the harbour of Genoa. In the following month he witnessed the evacuation of the latter place by the French; and on 3 Sept. in the same year he was in one of eight boats that brought out from Barcelona Roads, after having sustained a loss of 3 men killed and 5 wounded, the Spanish corvettes Esmeralda and Paz of 22 guns each, although defended by a heavy fire from four strong batteries, 10 gun-boats, two schooners, armed between them with 4 long 36- pounders, and a fort upon Mount Ioni which threw shells. In this affair the enemy had 3 men killed and 21 wounded. In 1801 Mr. Scott commanded a boat at the landing of the troops and in the other, operations in Egypt. After serving for seven months in the North Sea and at Sheerness in the Iris and Ambuscade frigates, Capts. Hon. Philip Wodehouse and David Atkins, he was received, in Oct. 1802, on board the Resistance 36, also commanded by Capt. Wodehouse, under whom he was wrecked, near Cape St. Vincent, 31 May, 1803. He then joined, on the Mediterranean station, the Camelion 18, Capt. Thos. Staines; of which vessel, for his services in her boats, he was ultimately nominated Acting-Lieutenant. From Aug. 1804 until April, 1805, we again find him performing the duties of Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the Victory 100, bearing the flag of Lord Nelson. On leaving that ship he received an order to act as Lieutenant of the Childers 14, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton. On 12 Sept. following he was confirmed. His next appointment was, 20 Feb. 1806, to the Phoebe, of 44 guns and 271 men, Capts. Jas. Oswald, Hassard Stackpoole, and Jas. Hillyar, employed in succession in the North Sea and Mediterranean, off Greenland, and on the Baltic, Channel, Cape of Good Hope, and East India stations. Under Capt. Hillyar he assisted at the reduction of the Isle of France; and, prior to joining in the expedition against Java, was present as First-Lieutenant, 20 May, 1811 (while cruizing off Madagascar in company with the Astraea and Galatea, frigates nearly equal in force to the Phoebe, and 18-gun brig Racehorse), at the capture – after a long and trying action with the French 40-gun frigates Renommée, Clorinde, and Néréide, and a loss to the Phoebe of 7 men killed and 24 wounded – of the Renommée, and, on 25 of the same month, of the Néréide and the settlement of Tamatave. As a reward for his gallant conduct he
- ↑ Before he left the Cambrian he appears, in command of a Tender, to have rendered material assistance to the Martin sloop, Capt. Hen. Eden, when driven on shore in a gale of wind.
