
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE NINTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME IX. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, F. R. S.
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE SIR EDWARD HUGHES, K. B. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE EDWARD VERNON, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF ROBERT RODDAM, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM LORD HOTHAM, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN ELLIOT, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
- I A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- II A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- III A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- IV A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN ELLIOT, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE NINTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME IX. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, F. R. S.
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE SIR EDWARD HUGHES, K. B. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE EDWARD VERNON, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF ROBERT RODDAM, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM LORD HOTHAM, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN ELLIOT, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
- I A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- II A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- III A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- IV A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
Summary
Immortal in the womb of time,
His worth descends to ancient days;
Glorious and great, in pleasing rhyme,
Infants unborn shall lisp his praise:
With Raleigh, see! with Drake his laurels grow,
Who sought, who saw, who beat th' insulting foe.
Anon.The observations with which we prefaced our Memoirs of the gallant Lord Hotham, apply also to this gentleman, concerning the early part of whose professional career, we have to state with regret, that our information is not sufficiently correct to be relied on. Mr. Elliot's commission as Post Captain is dated the 5th of April 1757, but whether he immediately received any command in consequence of being raised to that rank, is uncertain. In the course of the year 1758, he was appointed to the Æolus frigate, of 32 guns, a remarkably fine vessel of her class, and just off the stocks. In this ship, on the 15th of March the following year, he captured the Mignone, a small French frigate, of 20 guns, and 143 men; after a brisk, though short, engagement, in which the French Commander, the Chevalier de Transville, and a considerable number of men, were killed, and the Second Captain and twenty-five men were wounded: the loss sustained by the Æolus was no more than two or three men wounded.
Early in the year 1760, Captain Elliot was employed on the Irish station, and had the good fortune of an opportunity to distinguish himself in a most eminent manner.
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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. 425 - 500Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1803