1808, he was appointed to the command of the Rolla sloop: and on the 6th Oct. 1811, he captured l’Espoir French privateer, of 16 guns and 50 men, off Fecamp.
WILLIAM LANDLESS, Esq.
[Commander.]
Commission as commander dated Aug. 15th, 1803. He died in the year 1826.
RICHARD WILLIAM PARKER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Distinguished himself on many occasions, and received several severe wounds, whilst serving as lieutenant of the Speedy sloop, successively commanded by Captains Jahleel Brenton and Lord Cochrane, on the Gibraltar station, in 1799 and the two following years[1]. Although highly praised by both those distinguished officers, in their several public letters, and most strongly recommended by the latter for promotion, after the capture of El Gamo, he did not obtain the rank of commander until Aug. 15th, 1806; Earl St. Vincent not considering, as he intimated to his lordship, that “an action in which only three men were killed on the side of the British, was of sufficient importance to entitle Lieutenant Parker to advancement.” This shamefully treated gentleman died at Limerick, in the year 1824.
CHARLES CLARIDGE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Is said to have served as fifth lieutenant of the Defence 74, Captain John Peyton, at the battle of the Nile; but his first commission did not bear an earlier date than Sept. 11th, 1799. He obtained the rank of commander on the 22d Sept. 1806; and an appointment to the Driver ship-sloop, on the Halifax
