A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Auchinleck, James Richard
AUCHINLECK. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 16; h-p., 26.)
James Richard Auchinleck was born 4 March, 1791.
This officer entered the Navy, 26 Dec. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Squirrel 24, Capt. John Shortland, whom he accompanied, as Midshipman, in May, 1809, into the Junon 38. On 13 Dec. in the same year, that ship, being near Guadeloupe, was captured, after an heroically desperate resistance of 45 minutes, and a loss of 20 men killed and 40 wounded, by a French squadron, consisting of the 40-gun frigates, Renommée and Clorinde, and armeées en flute Loire and Seine, carrying each 20 guns – with the two former of whom she appears to have sustained a yard-arm and yard-arm conflict until on the verge of sinking. Until officially promoted, 4 Feb. 1815, Mr. Auchinleck was subsequently employed with great activity, latterly as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Alcmene 38, Capt. Wm. Maude, Hibernia and Centaur, both commanded by Capt. John Chambers White, San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Rich. King, Havannah 36, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, Albion 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Geo. Cockbum, and Lacedaemonian 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson, chiefly on the Mediterranean and North America stations. We afterwards find him serving, from Sept. 1815, to Dec. 1818, and from March, 1823, to March, 1826, on board the Pique 36, and Parthian 10, commanded on the West India and-other stations by Capts. Hon. Anthony Maitland, Arthur Fanshawe, Jas. Haldane Tait, John Mackellar, and Hon. Geo. Barrington. Since the latter date he has been on half-pay.