ROWLAND MONEY, Esq.
A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath.
[Post-Captain of 1815.]
Was made Lieutenant Jan. 12, 1805. We first find him serving in the Vestal 28, Captain Stephen Thomas Digby.
On the 16th and 17th Mar. 1806, the boats of that frigate made several ineffectual efforts to rescue the crew of a merchant brig, the Friendship, of Hull, which had grounded on the Gunfleet, near Harwich, in a heavy gale of wind. At day-light on the 18th, they failed in another attempt, owing to the heavy breakers, one of which filled the boat commanded by Lieutenant Money, and washed away all her oars; but providentially the current set her off the bank, and with the assistance of another boat she was at length enabled to cast a grapnel under the vessel’s lee. A rope from the fore-top was then fastened to her, and one by one the shipwrecked crew were hauled on board, which was scarcely effected when the tottering foremast fell.
Mr. Money subsequently joined the Lively frigate. Captain George M‘Kinley; and while serving under that excellent officer, as second lieutenant, his benevolent exertions to save a number of persons from perishing were again crowned with success.
In the evening of Nov. 19, 1807, the Lively being then under storm stay-sails, in lat. 47° 10' N., long. 16° W., a merchant brig was observed to leeward, apparently in a sinking state, the crew and passengers holding up their hats and handkerchiefs as signals of distress. Although it was the general opinion on board the frigate that no boat could live in the heavy sea then running. Lieutenant Money volunteered to make the attempt, and called on some of the people near to follow him: the jolly-boat was lowered from the lee-quarter, and the providence of God was so manifest on this occasion, that a very great and lasting impression was made upon many minds. Three times did she safely proceed under the stern of the foundering vessel, and at the
