Malabar 50, Capts. Robt. Hall, John Ayscough, and Geo. Scott, stationed in the North Sea and West Indies – 16 Aug. 1806 and 27 Feb. 1809, to the command of the Phosphorus fire-brig, and Lyra Impress-tender, employed off Boulogne and at North Shields and Sheerness – in 1812 or 13, to the Basilisk 12, Capt. Geo. French, lying at Hamoaze – 21 June, 1814, and 27 Nov. 1818, to the command of the Landrail schooner and Serapis convalescent ship – and, lastly, 26 March, 1819, to the Ordinary at Plymouth, where he remained until April, 1822. While in the Malabar, Mr. Lancaster served, in the boats of that ship and the Wolf 18, at the destruction, on the coast of Cuba, 2 Jan. 1806, of the two French privateers Le Régulateur and Napoléon, of 5 guns each, and a crew united of 146 men, after a well-contested action of an hour and three-quarters. During his command of the Lyra he made suggestions to the Admiralty relative to the Impress service which caused a saving in one port alone of 3000l. per annum, and for which he obtained their Lordships’ thanks. On 12 July, 1814, being then in the Landrail, which vessel carried only 4 12-pounder carronades and 19 men, Mr. Lancaster had the misfortune to be captured by the American privateer-schooner Syren (mounting 1 long 18-pounder on a travelling-carriage, 4 long 6-pounders and 2 18-pounder carronades, with a crew of 75 men), at the end of a running fight of one hour and 10 minutes, and a close action, within pistol-shot, of 40 minutes, in all 2 hours. This strenuous and most gallant resistance on the part of the Landrail was the occasion of a loss to herself of 7 men wounded, and to her antagonist of 3 men killed and 15 wounded. Her brave commander was in consequence detained a captive in America until the conclusion of the war.
Mr. Lancaster is the Senior Lieutenant of 1805. His eldest son, John James Lancaster, Esq., M.D., is a Surgeon in the R.N. (1835). Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
LANE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Dennys Lane died in 1846. He was third son of the Rev. Rich. Lane, of Coffleet and Bradley, co. Devon, by Lucy, daughter of Nicholas Dennys, Esq., of Ashley, near Tiverton; and brother-in-law of Samborne Stuckley Palmer, Esq., of Timsbury House, co. Somerset.
This officer entered the Navy 24 May, 1832; passed his examination 11 Aug. 1838; attained the rank of Lieutenant, while serving as Mate on board the Cornwallis 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker in the East Indies, 27 Oct. 1841; and was appointed, 31 March and 17 Nov. 1842, to the Modeste 18, and North Star 26, Capts. Bundle Burges Watson and Sir Jas. Everard Home, both on the same station, whence he returned home and was paid off in the summer of 1846.
LANE. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 17; h-p., 29.)
John Edward Lane entered the Navy, in 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Cambridge 74, Capt. Lane, lying at Hamoaze, where, in May, 1802, he joined the Centaur 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres. Between June in the same year and June, 1807, we find him serving, as Midshipman, on the Mediterranean and Home stations, in the Spider, Lieut.-Commander Harding Shaw, Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Robt. Barlow, Dryad 36, Capt. Adam Drummond, Barfleur 98, Capt. Jos. Sydney Yorke, and Success 32, Capt. John Ayscough. During the next two years he acted as Lieutenant of the Belle Poule 38, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, under whom, besides contributing to the capture of other smaller vessels, he assisted in taking, 13 Feb. 1809 [errata 1], Le Var of 26 guns, laden with corn for the relief of the French garrison at Corfu. From the following July until Sept. 1810 he again served as Midshipman in the Ville de Paris and San Josef llO’s, flag-ships of Lord Collingwood and Sir Chas. Cotton. He was then a second time invested with the rank of Lieutenant, in the Volontaire 38, Capts. Chas. Bullen, Abel Ferris, Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, and Joseph Nourse, in which frigate he continued, co-operating intermediately with the patriots on the coast of Spain, until at length confirmed, 17 Jan. 1811, into the Trident 64, Capt. Rich. Budd Vincent, stationed at Malta. His last appointments were – 4 Nov. 1811, to the Frederickstein frigate, Capt. Fras. Beaufort, also in the Mediterranean, whence he returned in Oct. 1812 – 8 Oct. 1813, to the Telegraph 12, Capt. Timothy Scriven, in which vessel he was for nearly two years employed on the Channel and North American stations – and 25 June, 1831, to the command of the Swan cutter of 10 guns, on the Home station, where he remained until paid off in 1835. He has not been since afloat.
He married, 16 May, 1832, Lauretta Maude, daughter of the late W. Blewett, Esq., of Halton Court, Cornwall.
LANE. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
John William Lane entered the Navy 8 June, 1809; and from that period until Dec. 1814 was employed on the Home and American stations in the Agincourt 64, Capt. Wm. Kent, Unicorn 32, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, Amethyst 36, Capt. Mich. Seymour, Venerable 74, Capt. Andw. King, San Domingo 74, Capt. Chas. Gill, Caesar 80, Capt. Chas. Richardson, Namur 74, Capt. Alex. Shippard, Chanticleer 10, Capt. Rich. Spear, Paz schooner, Lieut.-Commander Dan. Pring, Ephira 10, Capt. John Strutt Peyton, and Edinburgh 74, Capts. Robt. Rolles, Rowland Mainwaring, Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, and John Lampen Manley. During his attachment to the Venerable he accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren in Aug. 1809; and when in the Edinburgh he witnessed, in 1813-14, the capture of Port d’Anzo, the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, the reduction of the fortress of Santa Maria and of the enemy’s other forts and defences in the Gulf of Spezia, and the fall of Genoa. On 17 June, 1815, being then in the Pilot 18, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, Mr. Lane, who had previously served for a short time in the Boyne 98, Capts. Fred. Lewis Maitland and Jas. Brisbane, contributed to the defeat, near Cape Corse, of the French corvette Légère, of 28 guns, who made off at the close of a gallant conflict in which the British vessel sustained a loss, besides being otherwise disabled, of 1 man killed and 15 wounded, and the Frenchman of 22 killed and 79 wounded. He left the Pilot in June, 1816, and, passing his examination in the following Oct., was afterwards, between Jan. 1821 and 13 Dec. 1828, employed, as Admiralty-Midshipman, Acting-Lieutenant, and Admiralty-Mate, in the Medina 20, Capts. Robt. Hockings, the Earl of Huntingdon, B. Anderson, and Patrick Duff Henry Hay, Tweed 24, Capt. Fred. Hunn, Semiramis 42, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Robt. Plampin, Badger 10, Capt. Chas. Crowdy, Despatch 18, Capt. Robt. White Parsons, and Tribune 42, Capt. John Wilson, on the Mediterranean, Cork, Lisbon, and South American stations. He was then made Lieutenant into the Thetis 46, Capt. Arthur Batt Bingham, also in South America, whence he invalided 17 Aug. 1829. He has since been on half-pay.
LANE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p. 25; h-p., 17.)
William Lane (b) entered the Navy, 13 Aug. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Wolverene sloop, Capts. Thos. Smith and Fras. Augustus Collier, with the latter of whom he further served in the Circe 32, Star sloop, and Pelorus 18, on the West India station, until July, 1809. He assisted in consequence, at the capture of several of the enemy’s privateers and armed vessels, took part also in a successful attack made in Dec. 1808 by the Cyane and a small squadron on some batteries, a corvette and two schooners near the town of St. Pierre, Martinique, ond co-operated in the Star in the reduction of the latter island in Feb. 1809. During the remainder of the war we find Mr. Lane employed
