1804, he continued employed as Midshipman in the Salvador Del Mundo, Capt. John Loring, until transferred, in May, 1806, to the Triumph 74, Capt. Thos. Masterman Hardy. In that ship he served, for about two years on the coast of North America and off Flushing. He then joined the Ville de Paris 110, Capts. John Surman Garden and Rich. Thomas, under the former of whom he assisted, in Jan. 1809, in embarking the remains of General Moore’s army at Corunna. In the course of 1810 he was received in succession on board the Wizard sloop, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude, Aetna bomb, Capt. John Fordyce Maples, and Barfleur 98, flag-ship of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley – the two former vessels employed at the defence of Cadiz, the Barfleur on the Lisbon station. He was nominated, 4 June, 1811, Acting-Lieutenant of the Alfred 74, Capts. Wm. Shepheard and Joshua Sydney Horton, also engaged at the defence of Cadiz; was confirmed to that ship 23 Aug. following; and, invaliding from her in March, 1812, was afterwards employed – from 29 Sept. 1812 until taken prisoner in Dec. 1813, in the Goldfinch brig, Capt. Edm. Waller, on the coast of France – from 1 Dec. 1814 until 4 Dec. 1815, in the Centaur 74, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, with whom he visited Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena – and from 23 March, 1830, until 1832, in command of the Conflict 12, on the coast of Africa. He has since been on half-pay.
SMYTH. (Lieut., 1826. f-p., 19; h-p., 14.)
Francis Smyth was born in May, 1803.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 July, 1814, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bermuda 10, Capt. John Pakenham, in which vessel, after having served in the Channel and attained the rating of Midshipman, he was wrecked, near Tampico Bar, in the West Indies, 16 Nov. 1816. He was subsequently employed – from Feb. 1817 until May, 1818, again in the West Indies, in the Rifleman 18, Capt. Houston Stewart, Salisbury 58, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas, and Primrose 18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott – from Nov. 1818 until Dec. 1821 in the Spencer 76, flag-ship of Sir Josias Rowley at Cork – from Dec. 1821 until Nov. 1823 in the Windsor Castle 74, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, lying at Plymouth – from Nov. 1823 until Aug. 1829 in the Tamar 26, Capt. Sir Jas. John Gordon Bremer, Boadicea 46, Commodore Sir Jas. Brisbane, and Rainbow 28, Capt. Hon. Henry John Rous, all in the East Indies, where he was confirmed a Lieutenant (about five months after he had been ordered to act as such) in the vessel last mentioned, 11 Oct. 1826 – and, from 11 June, 1832, until 2 Dec. 1833, as Senior, in the Dispatch 18, Capt. Geo. Daniell, a third time in the West Indies. He then invalided with a constitution so much impaired from the effects of long service in tropic climes that he was for long unable to go afloat. Restored at length to health, he was nominated, 27 Nov. 1844, Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel; in which capacity he continued until appointed, 27 July, 1847, to the command of the Antelope steamer of 260 horse-power, fitting for the Mediterranean, where he is now serving.
Lieut. Smyth married in April, 1835, and has issue five children.
SMYTH. (Lieutenant, 1814.)
George Thomas Smyth was employed as Midshipman during the war in the Volontaire 38, Cambrian 40, Boyne 98, and Tonnant 80. In the two first he saw much boat-service in the Mediterranean; and in the Boyne, commanded by Capt. Geo. Burlton, he was present in Sir Edw. Pellew’s partial action with the Toulon fleet, 13 Feb. 1814; on which occasion that ship bore the brunt of the engagement, was for half an hour in action, close in shore, and under the enemy’s batteries, with the Romulus 74, and sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 40 wounded, besides being much damaged in her hull, masts, and rigging. In the Tonnant Mr. Smyth witnessed the attack upon Baltimore; and soon after his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 23 Nov. 1814, he accompanied, in the Diomede troop-ship, the expedition against New Orleans. His appointments since the peace appear to have been – 14 Oct. 1828, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 16 March, 1831, to the Coast Guard – 27 June, 1832, to the Adelaide Revenue-cruizer – 7 Feb. 1834, again to the Coast Guard – 17 and 27 March, 1838, to his former vessel, the Adelaide, and to the Scout, both engaged in the protection of the Revenue – 20 March, 1843, a third time to the Coast Guard – 5 Nov. 1844, to the Victoria, another Revenue-vessel – and, 20 May, 1848, again, as an Inspecting-Commander, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continues.
SMYTH. (Commander, 1827. f-p., 25; h-p., 19.)
Spencer Smyth entered the Navy, about March, 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Dreadnought 98, Capt. Jas. Bowen, lying at Portsmouth, where he followed that officer shortly afterwards into the Puissant 74, and in the course of the same year joined the Windsor Castle 98 and Defiance 74, Capts. Philip Chas. Durham and Hon. Henry Hotham. In the latter ship he served in Sir Robt. Calder’s action and at the battle of Trafalgar 22 July and 21 Oct. 1805, and assisted at the destruction of three French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne 24 Feb. 1809, on which occasion the Defiance, besides being much cut up in her masts and rigging, sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 25 wounded. After co-operating with the patriots on the coast of Spain he removed with Capt. Hotham, in Aug. 1810, into the Northumberland 74. In the course of the same year he contributed to the capture of two French privateers; and on 22 May, 1812, he was present, in company with the Growler gun-brig, at the gallant destruction, near L’Orient, of the 40-gun frigates L’Arienne and L’Andromaque, and 16-gun brig Mamelouck, whose united fire, conjointly with that of a heavy battery, killed 5 and wounded 28 of the Northumberland’s people. For his conduct in this affair he was promoted, 2 June, 1812, to the rank of Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were – 20 June, 1812, to the Mercurius 18, Capt. Thos. Renwick, in which vessel he was engaged in affording protection to convoys, and once escorted a fleet of 300 sail past the batteries of Elsineur – 15 June and 6 Dec. 1813, to the Bulwark and Venerable 74’s, bearing each the flag of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, with whom he served off Rochefort and Flushing and in the West Indies until May, 1816 – 30 April, 1818, for four months, to the Rochfort 80, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson – 22 May, 1819, to the Albion 74, Capt. Rich. Raggett – 19 March, 1822, to the charge of a Signal station at Portsmouth – 23 Dec. 1825, to the Victory 104, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Martin – and, 1 May, 1827, as Senior, to the Dartmouth 42, Capt. Thos. Fellowes. On his passage to the West Indies in the Venerable he assisted at the capture of Le Jason letter-of-marque of 14 guns (pierced for 22) and 54 men, and the frigates Iphigénie and Alcmène of 44 guns each, taken (the former after considerable resistance) 16 and 20 Jan. 1814. In June and Aug. 1815 he commanded the boats at the landing of the troops during the operations against Martinique and Guadeloupe. He was afterwards detached and sent in a schooner to Pointe-à- Pitre for the purpose of guarding that port and of securing the prizes – a service attended with much risk and fatigue. While on board the Rochfort, which ship, as well as the Albion and Victory, belonged to the Portsmouth station, Mr. Smyth cruized for six weeks off Scilly with a squadron under Sir Benj. Hallowell. During the time he had his name on the books of the Albion he was employed, in command of a tender, in supressing smuggling on the coasts of Sussex and Dorset. In the Dartmouth he fought, and was wounded in boarding a fire-ship, at the battle of
