The Naval Chronicle Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME
- PLATES from Original Designs by Mr. POCOCK
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SAMUEL, LORD VISCOUNT HOOD
- MEMOIRS OF NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES KNOWLES'S SERVICES IN RUSSIA, DURING THE YEARS 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, AND 1774
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD HUGH SEYMOUR
- MEMOIRS OF NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS
- HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF NAVAL TRANSACTIONS, DURING THE PRESENT WAR, FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT IN 1793
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JAMES ALMS, SEN
- INDEX
- CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF Naval Events, DURING THE YEAR 1799
- APPENDIX
- NAVAL PILLAR, TO PERPETUATE THE GLORIOUS VICTORIES OF THE BRITISH NAVY
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JAMES ALMS, SEN
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME
- PLATES from Original Designs by Mr. POCOCK
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SAMUEL, LORD VISCOUNT HOOD
- MEMOIRS OF NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES KNOWLES'S SERVICES IN RUSSIA, DURING THE YEARS 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, AND 1774
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD HUGH SEYMOUR
- MEMOIRS OF NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS
- HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF NAVAL TRANSACTIONS, DURING THE PRESENT WAR, FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT IN 1793
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JAMES ALMS, SEN
- INDEX
- CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF Naval Events, DURING THE YEAR 1799
- APPENDIX
- NAVAL PILLAR, TO PERPETUATE THE GLORIOUS VICTORIES OF THE BRITISH NAVY
Summary
All my delight on deedes of armes is sett,
To hunt out perilles and adventures hard,
By Sea, by Land, whereso they may be mett,
Onely for Honour and for high regard,
Without respect of richesse or reward:
For such intent, into these partes I came,
Withouten Compasse, or withouten Card.
Spenser.THE Fame of Captain Alms must ever live in the page of Naval History; the steady valour, which so ably opposed the experience, and terrible fire, of a superior enemy, has united its animating influence, with those instances of patriot courage, which gradually have tended to establish the Supremacy of the British Navy.
Mr. James Alms, the youngest son of John, and Mary Alms, was born on the 15th of July, O. S. (1728) at Gosport; a town which has enjoyed the honour of sending into the Navy, some of the first characters in the Service. Mr. Alms's father was of Bedfordshire, and served in the Royal Navy, during the reigns of King William, and Queen Anne: in Queen Anne's war, he commanded a Spanish prize galleon, that had been commissioned, and of which he was appointed Captain.
The elder brother of Mr. James Alms was bred a seaman; and for a number of years was master of the commissioners yacht at Portsmouth.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 549 - 644Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1799