The Naval Chronicle Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XIII. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE THIRTEENTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM HUNTER, OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL: An intimate Friend of the Poet FALCONER
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE COMMODORE SIR WILLIAM JAMES, BART. IN THE HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE, Chairman of the Court of Directors, &c
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF PHILIP D'AUVERGNE, DUKE OF BOUILLON, COMMODORE IN HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE, &c. &c
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD ONSLOW, BART
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR RICHARD BICKERTON, BART. AND K.C. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF RICHARD RODNEY BLIGH, ESQ, ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF RICHARD RODNEY BLIGH, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- INDEX
- I SPANISH NAVAL STATE PAPERS
- II SPANISH NAVAL STATE PAPERS
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM HUNTER, OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL: An intimate Friend of the Poet FALCONER
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XIII. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE THIRTEENTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM HUNTER, OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL: An intimate Friend of the Poet FALCONER
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE COMMODORE SIR WILLIAM JAMES, BART. IN THE HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE, Chairman of the Court of Directors, &c
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF PHILIP D'AUVERGNE, DUKE OF BOUILLON, COMMODORE IN HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE, &c. &c
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD ONSLOW, BART
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR RICHARD BICKERTON, BART. AND K.C. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF RICHARD RODNEY BLIGH, ESQ, ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF RICHARD RODNEY BLIGH, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- INDEX
- I SPANISH NAVAL STATE PAPERS
- II SPANISH NAVAL STATE PAPERS
Summary
“The Wedding Guest sate on a stone,
He cannot chuse but hear;
And thus spake on that Ancyent Man
The bright-ey'd Marinere:
Listen Stranger!” ———
(Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.)The following simple Narrative contains the life of a Veteran who, though not altogether successful in his Naval Career, yet has uniformly run with Patience the race that was set before him. It was originally drawn up to gratify the curiosity of a Friend; and it is alone owing to the importunity of friendship, that so correct a delineation of a British Seaman is now presented to the public. May it prove a powerful antidote to the discontent which frequently increases their natural irritability, and overcome that despondency which has sometimes induced Officers to tax their country with ingratitude.
I was born in the City of Edinburgh on the 6th of May, O. S., 1731, and having from my cradle an abhorrence of a sedentary life, I went to sea at the early age of twelve years with my Father, in the Britannia Merchantman fitted out from Leith belonging to the London Trade. After making several voyages both in her and in the Ships James and John, the latter was taken up as a Transport, and ordered with many others to proceed to Aberdeen, under convoy of his Majesty's Ship Fox, of 20 guns, commanded by Capt. Beaver; who was under orders there to embark some Troops that were destined to oppose the progress of the Rebels, already in the vicinity of Edinburgh.
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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. 1 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1805