A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bacon, Edmund Ker Cranstoun
BACON. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 19 h-p., 35.)
Edmund Ker Cranstoun Bacon entered the Navy, 23 April, 1793, as Midshipman, on board the Raisonnable 64, Capt. Lord Cranstoun, in which ship he served off the coasts of France and Spain, the Canary and Western Islands, and on the Irish station, until transferred, in Nov. 1794, with the same Captain, to the Bellerophon 74, one of the Hon. Wm. Cornwallis' squadron in his subsequent pursuit of the force under M. Vence into Belleisle of the 7th, and in his memorable retreat of the 16 and 17 June, 1795. In Sept. 1796, he joined the Duke 98, Capt. John Holloway, and, after serving for some time also in the Royal Soveriegn, flagship in the Channel of Sir Alan Gardner, was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 25 Aug. 1799, in the Reynard 20, Capt. Peter Spicer, under whom he continued to serve in the Channel until Sept. 1801. His subsequent appointments appear to have been – 28 April, 1804, to the Charles armed ship, Capt. Davis, in the North Sea – 7 Oct. 1805, to the Saturn 74, Capt. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, cruising off Cadiz and L'Orient – 20 April, 1809, to the Royal Oak 74, commanded by the same nobleman, whom he accompanied in the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren – 17 Oct. 1810, to the Africa 64, flag-ship at Halifax of Rear-Admiral Herbert Sawyer – 21 Dec. 1811, to be Agent for Prisoners of War at Bermuda – and, 11 Nov. 1813, and 1 Feb. 1814, to the successive command of the Ardent and Romulus, on the same station. He was placed on half-pay in Nov. 1814; accepted, 26 Nov. 1830, the rank of Retired Commander under the Order in Council of that year; and, on 22 Jan. 1844, was promoted to the list of 1816. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.