board the Victory 100, flag-ship of Lord Nelson in the Mediterranean; where, in Aug. 1804, he removed to the Narcissus 32, Capt. Ross Donnelly. That ship he left in Feb. 1805. On 22 Feb. 1806 he was created a Lieutenant of the Blenheim 74, bearing his father’s flag in the East Indies; and in March, Aug. and Oct, of the same year, he was nominated Acting-Commander of the Harrier 18, and Acting-Captain of the Macassar and Greyhound frigates. His commissions as Commander and Captain bear date 5 Sept. 1806 and 28 Nov. 1807. While in the Harrier and in company with the Greyhound, commanded at the time by Capt. Chas. Elphinstone, he assisted, 4 July, 1806, in destroying, under the fort of Manado, the Dutch company’s brig Christian Elizabeth, of 8 guns and 80 men. On the 6th of the same month the two ships took, at the island of Tidore, the Belgica of 12 guns and 32 men; and on the 26th they fought a gallant action with a Dutch squadron, consisting of the Pallas frigate, of 40 guns and 250 men, the Vittoria (a two-decker) and Batavia Indiamen, both richly laden and both (the one of 800, the other of 500 tons) armed for the purposes of war, and the William corvette, of 20 guns (24-pounders) and 110 men; the result whereof was the capture of all the enemy’s ships but the William, after a loss had been incurred by them of 12 killed and 39 wounded, and by the British of 1 killed and 11 wounded. In his official letter detailing the events we have just noticed, Capt. Elphinstone says – ”The support and assistance I have received from Capt. Troubridge on every other occasion throughout a difficult navigation, I attribute to the same talents, ability, and zeal which he so nobly displayed on this one.”[1] After vainly cruizing, in the Greyhound, in quest of his father, who, it was thought, on the Blenheim being missed, might have put into some port to repair his damages, Capt. Troubridge, in Jan. 1808, invalided home. His next appointment was to the Armide 38; which frigate he commanded from 5 Feb. 1813 until May, 1815. He assisted, in company with the Endymion 40. in making prize, 15 Aug. 1814, of the Herald American privateer of 17 guns and 100 men; and on the following day he captured, alone, the Invincible of 16 guns and 60 men. During the operations against New Orleans he landed as senior officer of the naval brigade, and was highly spoken of for his conduct, particularly for the assistance he afforded the troops in throwing up batteries and getting the guns in.[2] From 15 April, 1831, until superseded in Oct. 1832, he commanded the Stag 46, on particular service; in April, 1835, he obtained a seat at the Board of Admiralty; and on resigning that appointment he assumed command, 23 Aug. 1841, of the Formidable 84, fitting for the Mediterranean. He was advanced to Flag-rank 23 Nov. following; and has since been on half-pay. He had been nominated a C.B. 20 July, 1838.
Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge, who is a Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Haddington, was returned to Parliament in 1831 as Member for Sandwich – a place he still represents. From 30 June, 1831, until promoted to his present rank, he had filled the post of Naval Aide-de-Camp to his late and Her present Majesty. He married, 18 Oct. 1810, Anna Maria, daughter of Admiral Hon. Sir Alex. Forrester Inglis Cochrane, G.C.B., sister of Rear-Admiral Sir T. J. Cochrane, K.C.B,, and cousin of Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., by whom he has issue. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
TROUGHTON. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 31.)
Joseph Troughton was born 13 June, 1791, at Bath.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 June, 1804, as Clerk, on board the Princess Augusta yacht, Capt. Edw. Jas. Foote, under whom he was for 15 months employed chiefly in attendance upon George III. off Weymouth. In Jan. 1806 he was received as Fst.-cl. Vol, on board the Nassau 64, Capt. Robt. Campbell; and while in that ship, in which he continued until transferred as Midshipman, in Nov. 1809, to the Eagle 74, Capt. Chas. Rowley, he assisted in blockading the Texel, united, in 1807, in the siege of Copenhagen, and (on her being extricated from a mass of ice in which she had been blocked up during the whole winter) was present, 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. He also made a voyage to St. Helena. In the Eagle he co-operated in the defence of Cadiz; and on proceeding in her to the Adriatic saw much boat-service, and contributed to the reduction of the towns of Fiumé, Trieste, and others, on the coast of Istria. On leaving the Eagle he joined, in May, 1814, for rather more than five months, the Royal Charlotte yacht, Capts, Thos, Eyles and Geo. Scott. In the following Nov. he was received on board the Namur 74, bearing the flag at Sheerness of his former Captain, then Rear-Admiral Sir Chas, Rowley; he was presented, in March, 1815, with a commission bearing date 7 of the preceding Feb.; and he was next, from May to Sept. of the same year, and from 7 Feb. 1817 until he invalided 28 Jan. 1818, employed in the Channel in the Forth 40, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, and in the West Indies in the Shearwater 10, commanded in succession by Capt. Edw. Rodney, by himself as Acting-Commander, and by Capt. Douglas Cox. Capt. Rodney, all the medical officers, and part of the crew, were carried off by yellow fever; and Mr. Troughton himself was thrice attacked before he could be prevailed upon to invalid. Since the date last mentioned he has been on half-pay.
TROUGHTON. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 7; h-p., 30.)
Nicholas Troughton died in 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, 31 Aug. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Revenge 74, Capts. Hon. Chas. Paget, John Nash, Chas. Philip Butler Bateman, and Stewart; in which ship he served with the Channel fleet, assisted at the capture of the Vengeur French lugger of 16 guns and 78 men, and was for a long time employed, under the flag of Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, at the defence of Cadiz. In Nov. 1812 (he had attained the rating of Midshipman in Sept. 1810) he removed to the Superb 74, commanded by his former Captain, Paget, under whom, after contributing to the capture, in the Bay of Biscay, of, besides other vessels, the American brig Star of 6 guns and 35 men, and letter-of-marque Viper, of similar force, he visited the coast of Africa, the West Indies, and the shores of South and North America. While on the latter station he was employed against New York, New London, and New Bedford. He continued in the Superb (latterly the flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Hotham on the coast of France) until 12 May, 1815; he then took up a commission dated 4 March preceding. He did not afterwards go afloat. He had while belonging to the Superb acted for a short time as Lieutenant. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
TROUNSELL. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 26; h-p., 17.)
George Patey Trounsell was born in June 1793.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 Dec. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hibernia 120, Capt. Wm. Bedford, successive flag-ship, in the Channel, off Lisbon, and in the Mediterranean, of Lord Gardner, Earl St. Vincent, Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, and Sir Chas. Cotton; the latter of whom he followed, in May, 1810, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Feb. 1806), into the San Josef 110. While attached to the Hibernia he witnessed the flight of the Royal House of Braganza to the Brazils, the landing of the British army in Portugal, and the
