Aboukir 74, as Flag-Lieutenant, on the latter station, to Rear-Admiral T. B. Martin – 19 May, 1813, to the Endymion of 48 guns, Capt. Henry Hope, on the coast of North America, whence he returned in Sept. 1815 – 25 July, 1816, to the Impregnable 98, in which ship, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral David Milne, he remained until the following Oct. – 15 March, 1818, to the Iphigenia 42, Capt. Hyde Parker, under whom he escorted the Duke of Richmond as Governor-General to Canada, and then made a voyage to Jamaica, whence, in Aug. 1819, he invalided – towards the close of 1820, to the Atholl 28, Capt. Henry Bourchier – and, after about two years of half-pay, to the Victory 104, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Martin at Portsmouth. In 1812 Mr. Ormond, at that time a Lieutenant of the Aboukir, was attached to the flotilla at the defence of Riga. While serving in the Endymion he commanded a division of gun-boats, under the orders of Capt. Robt. Barrie, in an expedition up the Penobscot river, on which occasion he contributed, and was honourably mentioned for the able assistance he afforded, at the capture of the towns of Castine, Hamden, and Bangor, and the destruction, by the Americans, of the U.S. corvette Adams, a brig pierced for 18 guns, a large privateer, and eight merchant-vessels.[1] He was also present in the Endymion’s boats in an unsuccessful attack upon the American privateer Prince de Neufchâtel, whose opposition occasioned the assailants a loss of 28 killed and 37 badly wounded; and, on 15 Jan. 1815, he contributed in that ship to the memorable capture, after a close action of two hours and a half, a loss to the British, out of 319 men, of 11 killed and 14 wounded, and to the enemy of 35 killed and 70 wounded, of the President American frigate of 56 guns and 465 men. He was Second-Lieutenant of the Impregnable at the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816. Since his last promotion, which took place 27 May, 1825, he has been on half-pay.
Commander Ormond married, 20 June, 1822, Fanny, daughter of J. Hedges, Esq., of Wallingford.
OSBORN. (Retired Commander, 1838. f-p., 19; h-p., 35.)
John Osborn was born 17 Feb. 1775.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 Aug. 1793, as A.B., on board the Irresistible 74, Capt. John Henry; and in the early part of the following year was present at the reduction of the French islands in the West Indies, where, at Port-au-Prince, he was employed on shore with the army. Joining next the Bombay Castle 74, Capts. Chas. Chamberlayne, Jas. Macnamara, and Thos. Sotheby, he was afforded an opportunity of sharing, as Midshipman, in Hotham’s second partial action, 13 July, 1795. In Dec. 1796, when the latter ship was wrecked in the river Tagus, Mr. Osborn was struck by lightning while in the act of cutting away the masts, and greatly injured in the head. On his return to England in charge of a prize at the commencement of 1797, he was ordered to join the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the broad pendant at first of Sir Robt. Calder, and the flag, next, of Earl St. Vincent, off Cadiz and in the Mediterranean, where from June, 1799, until May, 1803, he served, as Master’s Mate and Acting-Master, in the Vincejo sloop, Capts. Geo. Long, Robt. Yarker, Geo. Chas. Mackenzie, Jas. Murray Northey, and Jas. Prevost. While in that vessel, besides participating in a variety of cutting-out affairs, he was present at the blockade and surrender of Malta, at the capture of Le Guillaume Tell of 84 guns and 1000 men, and in the operations against the French in Egypt. He was also severely wounded by the passage of a ball through his right arm in an action fought between the Vincejo and two Greek vessels; and in Oct. 1801 he was again wounded while serving on shore in a partially successful attack on the enemy’s batteries at Porto Ferrajo, where the British sustained a loss of 15 (including Capt. Long) killed, 33 wounded, and 77 missing. In Oct. 1803 Mr. Osborn became Master’s Mate of the Repulse 74, Capt. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, under whom he witnessed the capture, 13 March, 1806, of the French 80-gun ship Marengo, bearing the flag of Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. His appointments as Lieutenant, a rank he had attained 22 Jan. preceding, were – 26 May, 1806, to the Lucifer bomb, Capt. Robt. Elliot, in the North Sea, where he was superseded from ill health in the ensuing Sept. – 30 Jan. 1807, to the Prince of Orange 74, flag-ship in the Downs of Vice- Admirals Bartholomew Sam. Rowley and Geo. Campbell – and, 18 March, 1808, to the command of the Quail 4. In the latter vessel, until he invalided in Feb. 1813, he was employed in escorting convoys to diflferent places, and in bearing despatches to Sir Edw. Pellew off Toulon. He accepted his present rank 13 Oct. 1838.
Commander Osborn married, 6 Nov. 1806, Miss Johannah Catmore, of Aldborough, by whom he has issue three children.
OSBORN. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Sherard Osborn was Midshipman of the Hyacinth 18, Capt. Wm. Warren, at the reduction of Canton in 1841, and of the Clio 18, Capt. Edw. Norwich Troubridge (with whom he served on shore), at the capture of the batteries of Woosung, 16 June, 1842.[2] He passed his examination 6 Dec. 1843; served as Mate on board the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and Collingwood 80, bearing the flag in the Pacific of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour; and obtained his commission 4 May, 1846. He was then reappointed to the Collingwood, in which ship he is still employed.
OTTER. (Commander, 1844.)
Henry Charles Otter entered the Navy 12 Jan. 1822; passed his examination in 1828; obtained his first commission 5 Dec. 1831; was employed at Sheerness, from 15 Aug. 1833 until the close of 1835, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant, in the Ocean 80 and Howe 120, Capts. Sam. Chambers, Edw. Barnard, and Alex. Ellice; assumed command, 5 March, 1844, of the Sparrow surveying-vessel, on the coast of Scotland; acquired his present rank 26 Aug. following; and, since 1 Jan. 1847, at which period he left the Sparrow, has been in command, on the same station, of the Avon steam surveying-vessel, of 160-horse power.
When a Midshipman, Commander Otter’s heroic exertions saved the lives of a boat’s crew; and in 1845 he again displayed the intrepid humanity of his disposition by jumping overboard from the Sparrow for the purpose of affording assistance to some of his crew who had been capsized.
OTTY. (Commander, 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 30.)
Allen Otty entered the Navy, 15 Aug. 1803, as A.B., on board the Helder, guard-ship in the river Humber, Capts. Edw. Hawkins and Benj. Walker. From April, 1806, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 14 April, 1810, he served, chiefly in the capacity of Master’s Mate (a rating he had attained 9 May, 1805), in the San Josef and Ville de Paris of 110 guns, Caledonia 120, and Barfleur 98, flag-ships on the Channel and Lisbon stations of Sir Chas. Cotton, Lords Gardner and Gambier, and Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley. His succeeding appointments were to the Impétueux 74, Capt. John Lawford, Phipps gun-brig, Capt. Christopher Bell, and Goshawk sloop, Capts. Jas. Lilburn, Thos. Ball Clowes, and Hon. Wm. John Napier; to the gun-boat service on the river St. Lawrence; and to the Confiance 18 and Minstrel 20, both commanded by Capt. Peter Fisher. On the night of 29 April, 1812, we find him serving with the boats of the Goshawk and of a squadron under the orders of Capt. Thos. Ussher, and acquiring the greatest praise for his Undaunted courage, in a brilliant attack on the enemy’s privateers and batteries in
