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GOSNOLD—GOSSELIN.
Commander Jas. Morgan, Sir Francis Drake 36, Capt. John Bowker, Fly 18, Capt. John Baldwin, Phaeton 46, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon, Hyperion 42, Capt. Thos. Searle, Hasty 12, Lieut.-Commander Lewis Fitzmaurice, Alligator 28, Capt. Thos. Alexander, Liffey 50, Capt. Thos. Coe, and Victory 104, Capt. Chas. Inglis. He obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 17 Oct. 1833; removed, 12 Sept. 1840, to the command of the Dolphin Revenue-cruizer; and, since 17 Nov. 1843, has again been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard. Lieut. Goslin’s services to the Revenue have been very effective. He was instrumental, in 1835, to the condemnation of L’Eugene smuggler, at the Isle of Man; and in the course of the same year he seized three American traders having a quantity of illicit goods on board. On 23 May, 1837, he had the good fortune to effect the similar capture of three smuggling yawls and of 21 men. He also, on one occasion, towed two water-logged vessels into Galway Roads, thereby saving the crews, together with property valued at 13,000l.; and on another he succeeded in rescuing from the wrecks of four vessels goods amounting to 8900l. On 5 Dec. 1843 he preserved from destruction the barque Margarette of New Brunswick, and property worth 5000l.
Lieut. Goslin was honoured, 28 Feb. 1839, with a letter of thanks from the Royal National Shipwreck Institution, for his conduct on 27 of the previous Nov. in having saved the lives of 17 persons at the imminent hazard of his own. Agent – Fred. Dufaur.
GOSNOLD. (Lieut., 1816. f-p., 14; h-p., 31.)
James Gosnold entered the Navy, 16 June, 1802, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the Cruizer 18, Capts. John Hancock and Pringle Stoddart, with whom he served, before the mast, until Jan. 1811. On 16 May following he was present in a gallant attack on a division of the enemy’s flotilla, consisting of 59 sail, passing alongshore from Flushing to Ostend, in which the above vessel had 1 man killed and 4 wounded; and indeed he appears, during that and the following year, to have been not less than 104 times in action, either with the enemy’s flotilla or land-batteries. In 1807 he further attended the expedition against Copenhagen. On leaving the Cruizer he was appointed Midshipman of the Britomart 10, Capt. Wm. B. Hunt, from which vessel, stationed in the North Sea, he removed, in Feb. 1812, to the Algerine 10, Lieut.-Commander Dan. Carpenter; under whom, on 8 Feb. 1813, he was in an action in which the British had 3 men killed and 7 or 8, including himself, wounded. The Algerine being lost off the Bahamas, 20 May, 1813, Mr. Gosnold was next appointed, as Master’s Mate, to the Alexandria store-ship, Master-Commander Josiah Oake, employed on the American coast. Since the receipt of his commission, which bears date 4 Jan. 1816, he has been on half-pay.
GOSSELIN. (Lieutenant, 1810.)
Joshua Carteret Gosselin, born 19 July, 1789, is second and youngest son of the late Joshua Gosselin, Esq., by Mary, daughter of Thos. Priaulx, Esq., of Guernsey; and nephew of Admiral Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Latona 38, Capt. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin; on accompanying whom as Master’s Mate into the Audacious 74, he was employed on the services detailed in the ensuing memoir. He afterwards, wo find, joined the Victory 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, Owen Glendower 36, Capt. Wm. Selby, Phoebe 36, Capt. Jas. Hillyar, and Victory again, all on the Baltic station; where, on 22 Sept. 181Q, he was confirmed a Lieutenant in the Ruby 64, bearing the flag of Admiral Manley Dixon. His last appointments were – 26 March, 1811, to the Acasta 40, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, on the North American station – and 10 June, 1813, for a short time, to the Spartan 38, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton, in which frigate he returned to England.
GOSSELIN. (Admiral of the Red, 1841. f-p., 29; h-p., 40.)
Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin, born 7 May, 1765, is second son ’of Joshua Gosselin, Esq., Colonel of the North Regiment of Militia, by Martha, daughter of Thos. Le Marchant, Esq., of Guernsey. He is brother of General Gerard Gosselin, of Mount Ospringe, co. Kent, and also of Lieuts. Corbet and Chas. Gosselin, of the Navy and Army, both of whom died at Trinidad in 1803. His nephew, Lieut. J. C. Gosselin, is a Lieut. R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 Aug. 1778, on board the Action 44, Capt. P. Boteler, with whom he removed, in June of the following year, to the Ardent 64. That ship being captured on 16 Aug. 1779, by the combined fleets of France and Spain, he remained for three months a prisoner at Alençon, in Normandy. He next joined the Barfleur 98, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, in which ship, after witnessing the reduction of the Dutch island of St. Eustatius, he fought in the action with the Comte de Grasse off Martinique, 29 April, 1781, and in those of 25 and 26 Jan. 1782, off St. Kitt’s. Removing then to the Champion, commanded by Capt. Hood, Mr. Gosselin took further part in the memorable operations of 9 and 12 April, 1782, as also in the capture, on 19 of the same month, of two French line-of-battle ships, a frigate, and a corvette, the latter of which struck to the {sc|Champion}} after a few broadsides. After an additional servitude in the Aimable 32, Carnatic 74, Nautilus 16, Grampus 50, Triumph 74, and Barfleur 98, on various stations, he was promoted, 1 Dec. 1787, to the rank of Lieutenant; his appointments in which capacity were, it appears, to the Atalanta 16, Crown 64, and Minerva 38, all on the East India station; where he was invested with the command, 20 April, 1793, of the Despatch sloop. Capt. Gosselin, whose next appointment was, 19 March, 1794, to the Kingfisher 18, subsequently assisted the Hon. Wm. Cornwallis in the capture of a small convoy off Belleisle, and compelled a French frigate to cast off a large store-ship she had in tow.[1] Being confirmed to Post-rank 23 July, 1795, in the Brunswick 74, he further obtained command, on 22 April and 25 July, 1796, of the Diamond 38, and Syren 32. At the conclusion of the mutiny at Spithead in 1797 (previously to which he had captured the Sans Peur French cutter privateer, carrying 2 swivels, some small arms, and 18 men) Capt. Gosselin proceeded in the latter frigate, with the Pearl 32, and 20-gun ships Dart and Arrow, under his orders, to the relief of Sir Rich. Strachan off St. Marcon. In March, 1798, he sailed in charge of a large convoy for Jamaica and the Leeward Islands, carrying out at the same time Major-General Bowyer, the Governor-General, and Staff; and on this occasion the Masters of the merchantmen presented him with a very valuable sword, as a mark of their respect and esteem. After contributing, in Aug. 1799, to the reduction of the Dutch colony of Surinam, Capt. Gosselin returned to England with another convoy. He was next employed for three months during the summer of 1800 in attendance upon George III. at Weymouth. In Feb. 1801 we again find him escorting the trade to the West Indies, where he continued until the peace. The Melampus, to which frigate Capt. Gosselin had been removed in the previous Oct., being paid off 23 June, 1802, he did not again go afloat until 2 Feb. 1804, on which date he was appointed to the Ville de Paris 110 bearing the flag of the Hon. Wm. Cornwallis off Brest; where, on being appointed in the following summer to the Latona 38, he so distinguished himself by his energy in command of the in-shore squadron of frigates as to attract the successive thanks of the above officer and of Lord Gardner and Sir Chas. Cotton. From the Latona Capt. Gosselin (who had captured in her the Amphion Spanish pri-
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1795, p. 655.
