19, 1801[1], in the performance of which service he again received a wound.
Mr. Holland was promoted to the rank of Commander immediately after this very brilliant action; and he obtained a post commission on the 22d Jan. 1806, since which he has not been employed afloat.
JOHN YELLAND, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]
Received a Lieutenant’s commission, Mar. 13, 1783; and was promoted. to the rank of Commander for his gallant conduct as first Lieutenant of the Monarch 74, in the sanguinary battle off Copenhagen, April 2, 1801[2].
Captain Yelland commanded the Fury bomb, off Boulogne, in the spring of 1805; and attained post rank, Jan. 22, 1806. He has enjoyed the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital ever since Nov. 2, 1809.
Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.
WOODLEY LOSACK, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]
Brother of Admiral George Losack. This officer was made a Lieutenant in 1793; and held the temporary command of the Jason frigate in the spring of 1801. On the 1st May, same year, he captured la Dorade, French brig privateer, mounting 14 brass 6-pounders, with a complement of 53 men. The manner in which he obtained a Commander’s commission, when serving as first Lieutenant of Admiral Cornwallis’s flag-ship, has been sufficiently noticed in our memoir of the gallant Captain Keith Maxwell[3].
- ↑ See Vol. II. part I. p. 47.
- ↑ See Vol. I. note at pp. 365–371. N.B. The Monarch’s Captain (James Robert Mosse) was killed in this combat, and her loss of men was greater than that of any other line-of-battle ship during the war.
- ↑ See Vol. II. part II. p. 885, and two following pages.
