A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Alleyn, Richard Israel
ALLEYN. (Retired Commander, 1835. f-p., 18; h-p., 34.)
Richard Israel Alleyn entered the Navy, in Oct. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Marlborough 74, Capts. Henry Nichols and Joseph Ellison, on the Channel station, where, and in the Mediterranean and West Indies, he afterwards served, as Midshipman, in the Boadicea 38, Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats, Cormorant 24, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, Haerlem and Africaine, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Burlton, Texel 64, Capt. Rich. Incledon, and Téméraire 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Geo. Campbell. While in the Cormorant, he was wrecked, we believe, off Damietta, on the Egyptian coast, 20 May, 1800. On 23 June, 1802, he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Syren frigate, Capt. John Wentworth Loring; and, on the paying off of that vessel, was confirmed, by commission dated 13 Oct. in the same year. His subsequent appointments were, on the Home and North America stations, to L’Egyptienne 44, Capts. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming and Hon. Chas. Paget, Crescent 36, Capt. Jas. Carthew, Endymion 40, Capts. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel and Sir Wm. Bolton, Abercromby 74, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie and Hotspur 36 Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy. In the Endymion and Hotspur Mr. Alleyn served for several years as First Lieutenant; previously to which, on the evening of 8 March, 1806, he had commanded the boats of L’Egyptienne in conjunction with Lieut. Philip Cosby Handfield, at the cutting out, under an incessant fire from two batteries, of the French frigate-built privateer L’Alcide, pierced for 34 guns, and moored to the beach in the harbour of Muros, in Spain. Having been unemployed since June, 1814, at which period he invalided from the Hotspur, Mr. Alleyn at length accepted the rank he now holds, 20 April, 1835. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.