THOMAS PORTER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 27th July 1814; appointed to the Andromache 44, Captain William Henry Shirreff, fitting out for South America, Sept. 5th, 1817; removed to the Superb 78, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Thomas M. Hardy, commander-in-chief on that station. May 10th, 1821; and promoted to the command of the Alacrity sloop, Aug. 26th, 1822. He returned from Brazil to Portsmouth, bringing home 1,000,000 dollars, July 19th, 1823.
JAMES LOWRY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 28th Jan. 1802; and appointed first of the Ajax 74, commanded by that excellent officer, Captain (now Sir Robert Waller) Otway, about July 1809. In 1812, we find him an agent of transports; and in 1821, commanding the Cameleon revenue cutter, on the Portsmouth station. He was promoted to his present rank on the 12th Sept. 1822, previous to which his vessel had formed part of the squadron employed in escorting King George IV. to Scotland.
DANIEL JAMES WOODRIFF, Esq.
[Commander.]
Eldest son of Captain Daniel Woodriff, R.N., C.B., of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, whose heroic defence of the Calcutta 50, against a French squadron, consisting of one three decker, four 74-gun ships, three frigates of the largest class, and two brigs, thereby preserving a valuable fleet of merchantmen under his convoy from capture, we have recorded in Vol. II. Part II. p. 541, et seq.
Mr. Daniel James Woodriff first went to sea in the Endymion 44, armed en flûte, and commanded by his father (then a lieutenant), which ship was totally lost, in 1790, upon a rock previously unknown, (and which has ever since retained
