1808, a flotilla of 12 gun-boats, by whom she had been attacked during a calm; conducted, 12 Jan. 1809, a virtually successful attack made on six vessels lying under the protection of two batteries in the harbour of Vieste, and secured by cables from their mast-heads to the shore; had charge of the boats, on 23 April, in an attempt to cut off some vessels full of troops from the island of Fano, near Corfu, under a heavy fire of musketry from the shore; was similarly employed at the bringing out, 30 July ensuing, of two large merchantmen from under a fort at Citta Nuova, where the boats suffered considerably; and, on the night of 31 Oct., had command of one of the boats of a squadron under Lieut. John Tailour at the capture and destruction, after a violent struggle, and a loss to the British of 15 killed and 55 wounded, of the French armed store-ship Lamproie, of 16 guns and 116 men, bombards Victoire and Grondeur, with a convoy of seven sail, defended by numerous strong batteries in the Bay of Rosas.[1] For his conduct in the latter affair, in which he was wounded, Mr. M‘Dougall, on the earnest recommendation of his Captain, was nominated by Lord Collingwood to a Lieutenancy, 25 Nov. 1809, in his own flag-ship the Ville de Paris 110 – an act sanctioned at home by a commission dated 3 Jan. 1810. In March, 1811, having been latterly under the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle, he removed to the Tigre 74, Capt. Benj. Hallowell, but he had not been long in that ship before he again, in the month of May, joined the Unité, then commanded by Capt. Edwin Henry Chamberlayne. On 4 of the ensuing July we once more find him serving in the boats, and co-operating with Lieut. Joseph Wm. Crabb, at the cutting out, from under a shower of grape from a 2-gun battery near Port Hercule, on the Roman coast, of the St. François de Paule, a vigorously-defended brig, mounting 8 six and three-pounders. Towards the close of the next Nov., while in charge of a large detained Austrian ship, and on his way to Malta, Lieut. M‘Dougall fell in with three French men-of-war, on perceiving whom he immediately, with a judgment and zeal which did him infinite credit,[2] put back for the purpose of communicating the intelligence to the Senior officer in the Adriatic, Capt. Murray Maxwell of the Alceste. The result was the capture, by the latter ship, of the Pomone, of 44, and, by the Unité, of La Persanne, of 26 guns. On 16 June, 1812, Lieut. M‘Dougall, who had rejoined his ship previously to the last-mentioned event, presents himself to our notice as effecting, with the boats of a frigate squadron under his orders, the capture and destruction of three vessels and several field-pieces in a small port near Cape Otranto. He invalided from the Unité in Sept. 1812, and was next appointed – 22 Dec. 1813, as Senior, to the Leander 50, Capts. Gordon Thos. Falcon and Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, under the latter of whom he came several times into action with the enemy on the coast of North America – 12 Dec. 1815, to the Superb 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, in which ship he received two wounds at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816[3] – 23 June, 1818, as First (after ten months of half-pay), to the Tartar frigate, fitting for the broad pendant of Sir G. R. Collier – and, 4 Aug. following, as Flag-Lieutenant, in the Salisbury 50, to Rear-Admiral Donald Campbell on the West India station, where his conduct in 1819, in saving, during a hurricane at the island of St. Thomas, the crew of a Danish vessel, after numerous unavailing efforts had been made from the shore, procured him the thanks of the King of Denmark, conveyed through the Lords of the Admiralty. Obtaining a second promotal commission 9 Feh. 1820, Capt. M‘Dougall did not again go afloat until Aug. 1833, on 27 of which month he assumed command of the Nimrod 20. In that vessel he served in the river Douro and on the coast of Spain and Portugal during the revolutionary commotions, and ultimately accompanied the Stag frigate, with Don Miguel on board, from the neighbourhood of Lisbon to Genoa. He continued in the Nimrod[4] until 1835; and on 16 Aug. 1836, within a short period of his appointment to the Salamander steamer, was advanced to Post-rank. Since 15 Feb. 1845, he has been in command of the Vulture steam-frigate, of 470 horse-power, on the East India station.
Capt. M‘Dougall is a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Argyleshire. He married, 22 Aug. 1826, Elizabeth Sophia, only daughter of the late Retired Commander Chas. Sheldon Timins, R.N., of Oriel Lodge, Cheltenham, by whom he has issue six sons and three daughters. Agents – Collier and Snee.
MACDOUGALL. (Commander, 1846.)
John Macdougall passed his examination in 1831; obtained his first commission 30 April, 1837; assumed command, 12 Sept. following, of the Dolphin 3, on the coast of Africa; and served from 18 July, 1838, until paid off in the summer of 1846, the last five years as First-Lieutenant., in the Pique 36, Capts. Edw. Boxer, Rich. Augustus Yates, Henry Forbes, and Hon. Montagu Stopford, on the North America and West India, Mediterranean, and again on the North America and West India stations. During the Syrian operations of 1840 he assisted at the capture of the towns of Caiffa and Tsour (at the former of which places he was severely wounded by the discharge of one of the enemy’s guns at the moment he was in the act of striking it[5]), and was also present at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. He attained the rank of Commander 28 July, 1846.
M‘FARLAND. (Retired Captain, 1840. f-p., 28; h-p., 38.)
James M‘Farland entered the Navy, 2 Dec. 1781, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Union 98, Capt. John Dalrymple, attached to the Channel fleet; and in the following Aug. became Midshipman of the Harpy fire-ship, Capt. Sir Jas. Barclay. After a short servitude in the Diligente, flag-ship at Spithead of Sir Thos. Pye, he joined, in Aug. 1783, the Salisbury 50, bearing the flag of Admiral Campbell at Newfoundland, where he continued until Dec. 1785. He served during the remainder of the peace on the Home station in the Druid 36, Capt. Joseph Ellison, Powerful and Orion 74’s, both commanded by Capt, Andw. Sutherland, Windsor Castle and London 98’s, flag-ships of Rear-Admirals Herbert Sawyer and Sam. Cranston Goodall, and Alcide and Hector 74’s, Capts. Sir Andw. Snape Douglas and Geo. Montagu. In March, 1793, Mr. M‘Farland joined the Queen Charlotte 100, bearing the flag in the Channel of Earl Howe; for his conduct as Acting-Lieutenant of which ship on the memorable 1 June, 1794, he obtained a commission dated 23 of that month. Continuing in her under the orders of Sir A. S. Douglas until July, 1797, he was in consequence present in the action fought by Lord Bridport with the French fleet off the Ile de Groix. We afterwards find him appointed in succession to the Monarch 74, Prince 98, and Lancaster 64, flag-ships at Home and at the Cape of Good Hope of Rear-Admiral Sir Roger Curtis. On 12 Sept. 1800, at which period he was Senior of the Lancaster, he received a compound fracture of the right arm, and was officially commended for his conduct at the cutting-out, by the boats of that vessel and the Adamant 50, of a ship lying under the fire of two heavy batteries at Port Louis in the Isle of France. He was confirmed in the rank of Commander, after having had charge for 13 months of the Penguin sloop at the Cape, 18 June, 1803; and was lastly, from the following July until March, 1810, employed in the Sea Fencible service. He accepted the rank of Captain 10 Sept. 1840.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1809, p. 1908.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1812, p. 566.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1816, p. 1792.
- ↑ In Jan. 1834 the boatswain and twelve of the Nimrod’s crew were swamped in the barge while Capt. M‘Dougall was endeavouring, with the rest of his boats, to save the Spanish frigate Lealtad from being lost off Santander.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2601.
