The Naval Chronicle Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XXIII. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTY-THIRD VOLUME
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR THOMAS TROUBRIDGE, BART. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE GEORGE DARBY, ESQ. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON, AND REAR-ADMIRAL OF GREAT BRITAIN
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE JOHN CARTER ALLEN, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE MARRIOT ARBUTHNOT, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE CAPTAIN RICHARD BOWEN, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE MOLYNEUX LORD SHULDHAM, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE GEORGE DARBY, ESQ. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON, AND REAR-ADMIRAL OF GREAT BRITAIN
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XXIII. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTY-THIRD VOLUME
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE SIR THOMAS TROUBRIDGE, BART. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE GEORGE DARBY, ESQ. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON, AND REAR-ADMIRAL OF GREAT BRITAIN
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE JOHN CARTER ALLEN, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE MARRIOT ARBUTHNOT, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE CAPTAIN RICHARD BOWEN, OF THE ROYAL NAVY
- MEMOIR OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE MOLYNEUX LORD SHULDHAM, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
Summary
“Our actions are our heralds, and they fix,
Beyond the date of tombs and epitapbs,
Renown and infamy.”
Tobin.Admiral darby was a disciple of that school, which is now almost extinct. He was contemporary with Rodney, Geary, Barrington, Hawke, and others, whose names appear to so much advantage in our naval annals.
Respecting his earlier services, our information is but slight. On the 12th of September, 1747, he was appointed captain of the Warwick; from which, by the month of December following, he was removed into the Aldborough, of 20 guns, on the American station. In January, 1748, he joined Commodore Knowles, at Jamaica; but it does not appear that he was present at the subsequent attack on St. Jago de Cuba, with that officer.
The peace which soon afterwards ensued, deprived Captain Darby, in common with most of the officers of the British navy, of any early opportunity of distinguishing himself; and it is not until the year 1757, when he commanded the Norwich, of 50 guns, on the West India station, that we find his name again mentioned.–Having returned to England, he was employed in the same ship, in the summer of 1759, at the bombardment of Havre de Grace, under Rear-admiral Rodney; after which, he continued, for some time, with the squadron, on a cruise in the Channel.
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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. 89 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1810