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the West Indies; to have been also in action, off the Havana, with a Spanish ship of the line, as well as with the batteries in Gibraltar Bay; and to have accompanied the Duke of Kent from Halifax to England as his Naval Aide-de-Camp. On leaving the Topaze Mr. Green successively joined the Circe frigate, Capt. Isaac Wolley, and Sans Pareil 80, and Trent 36, both commanded, the former as flag-ship to Rear-Admiral Robt. Montagu, by Capt. Jas. Katon, and all stationed in the West Indies, whence, after having passed through scenes of awful mortality, and been employed for 14 months as Master’s Mate, he returned to England in June, 1803. He was then at once draughted into the Conqueror 74, Capt. Israel Pellew, under whom, in the capacity last mentioned, he cruized for some time in the Channel, and ultimately shared, on his return with Lord Nelson from a pursuit of the combined fleets to the West Indies, in the glories of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805. The Conqueror, on that day, had the honour of taking possession of the Bucentaure, the French Commander-in-Chief’s ship; and Mr. Green, we are informed, had command of the boats, which were twice sunk in their attempt to take the prize in tow. On 8 Jan. 1806 this officer, whom the exigencies of his profession had deprived of an opportunity of passing his examination earlier than 1805, was promoted, for his conduct at Trafalgar, to a Lieutenancy in the Formidable 98, bearing the flag in the Channel of Earl St. Vincent. His subsequent appointments were – 28 Nov. 1807, through the interest of the Duke of Kent, to the Décade frigate, commanded on the Home station by Capt. John Stewart – 4 June, 1808, as First, to the Eurydice 24, Capt. Jas. Bradshaw, employed, during the American embargo of that year, as a ship of observation on the American lines adjoining Nova Scotia – 11 June, 1812, again through the Duke of Kent, to the command of the Kesoldte 14, in which vessel, stationed until Oct. 1815 off the coasts of Ireland and Scotland, he put into practice a mode of training the crew afterwards adopted throughout the whole Navy – 16 Dec. 1826, to the Transport service, in which he officiated as Agent Afloat until 21 March, 1827 – 19 Aug. 1829 to the Astraea packet, Capt.Wm. King, on the Falmouth station – 3 Nov. 1829 to the command of the Frolic, another Falmouth packet, in which he continued until paid off, 26 Nov. 1832 – and 10 May, 1842, to the Victory 104, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson, guard-ship at Portsmouth. He was superseded in the latter appointment in the spring of 1843, and not afterwards employed.
Lieut. Green was an officer of great mechanical powers. Although his exertions, rewarded in general with the most blasting ill-luck, seldom fructified into good to himself, he nevertheless unflinchingly devoted the greater portion of his life to the promotion of inventions and improvements connected with the service, many of which indeed are so valuable as to have been universally introduced into the Navy. In 1808 he suggested to Sir John Borlase Warren, then Commander-in-Chief on the North American station, the expediency of a change in the construction, armament, and discipline of British ships of war, in order that they might be rendered capable of more equally coping with the enemy. He afterwards submitted to the Navy Board a plan for lowering and fidding topmasts, an imitation of which, at a later period, procured another person, we understand, a reward from the Admiralty of 5000l. The Society of Arts, in 1823, presented him with a silver medal for his improvements in rigging ships; as they subsequently did for his “tiller for a disabled rudder,” and his “gun-carriage and jointed ramrod for naval use.” In 1837 he took out a patent for an “invention of improvements in capstans and machinery employed in raising, lowermg, and moving ponderous bodies and matters.” He had previously, in 1833, published a work, entitled ‘Fragments on Electricity, Magnetism, Aerolites, &c.’ Lieut. Green, who died Senior of 1841 [errata 1], has left a widow with three sons and seven daughters. His second son, John, is a Clerk of the Victory; and his youngest, Gilbert Elliot, Second Master of the Dragon steam-frigate. Agent- J. Woodhead.
GREENAWAY. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 11 h-p., 33.)
Richard Greenaway entered the Navy, in July, 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Ruby 64, Capt. Fras. Farington Gardner, flag-ship afterwards of the late Sir Edw. Thornbrough, in which he served, on the North Sea, Cadiz, and Lisbon stations, the last three years as Master’s Mate, until transferred in that capacity, in April, 1809, to the Eagle 74, Capt. Chas. Rowley. While under the latter officer he attended the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren, co-operated in the defence of Cadiz in 1810, assisted at the capture, 27 Nov. 1811, of La Corceyre frigate, carrying 28 guns, together with 170 seamen and 130 soldiers, and beheld the fall, in 1813, of Fiumé, Trieste, and other places in the Adriatic. He also, on 8 June, 1813, partially commanded the boats at the destruction, close to Omago, of a 2-gun battery and the capture of four scuttled vessels loaded with wine;[1] and on 8 of the following month he led the storming party which took and annihilated the fortress of Farasina, mounting 5 long 18-pounders.[2] After further escorting Louis XVIII. to France, Mr. Greenaway, who had been created a Lieutenant 13 Dec. 1809, and had been a long time First of the Eagle, was advanced to the rank of Commander by commission dated 26 May, 1814. He has not since been afloat.
He married, 8 Nov. 1837, Catherine, youngest daughter of the late John Cookson, Esq., of Clapham. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
GREENE. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Augustus Percival Greene died, we believe, in January, 1845.
This officer entered the Navy 23 June, 1831; passed his examination 7 May, 1838; and, for his services during the war in China, where he officiated as Mate of the Cornwallis 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker, and served on shore in the operations against Chapoo and Woosung, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Dec. 1842.[3] His last appointment was, 8 July, 1843, to the Plover surveying-vessel, commanded in the East Indies by Capt. Rich. Collinson, with whom he continued until the period of his death. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
GREENE. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 13; h-p., 33.)
Charles Greene is son of the Rev. Doctor Greene.
This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy in Dec. 1801; and embarked, 2 Nov. 1805, as A.B., on board the Euryalus 36, Capts. Hon. Hen. Blackwood and Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, employed off Cadiz. In April, 1806, he joined the Ajax 74, Capts. John Pilford and Hon. H. Blackwood; on the accidental destruction of which ship by fire off the Dardanells, 14 Feb. 1807, he became attached to the Active 38, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, and immediately accompanied Sir John Thos. Duckworth in the passage of those straits, where he assisted at the destruction of the Turkish squadron off Point Pesquies. Rejoining the Hon. H. Blackwood, in Feb. 1808, on board the Warspite 74, he continued to serve with that officer, as Midshipman, in the North Sea and Mediterranean, until nominated Acting-Lieutenant, 6 Feb. 1810 of the Tigre 74, Capt. Benj. Hallowell. He was confirmed, 4 May following, into the Atlas 74, Capt. Jas. Sanders, off Cadiz; and next appointed, 15 Feb.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1813, p. 2010.
- ↑ In the preceding April he had commanded the boats of the Eagle, in conjunction with those of the Elizabeth 74 under Lieut. Mitchell Roberts, and had assisted, much to his credit, at the capture of one, and destruction of another of an armed convoy who had run themselves on shore into a tremendous surf, under the protection of a galling fire from a 2-gun battery, two schooners, and three settee gun-boats. – Vide Gaz. 1813, p. 1793.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, pp. 3400, 3694, 3821.
