A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bague, George
BAGUE. (Retired Commander, 1837. f-p., 20; h-p., 29.)
George Bague entered the Navy, 15 June, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Haerlem armée en flûte, Capt. Geo. Burlton, and afterwards assisted, as Midshipman, in cutting out the Prima galley from the Mole of Genoa, and in various operations on the coast of Egypt. Between March, 1801, and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 8 March, 1805, he next served in the African and Success, both likewise commanded by Capt. Burlton, in the Mediterranean, Galatea and Aigle frigates, Capt. Geo. Wolfe, on the Home station, and, as Master’s Mate, in the Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship in the Channel of the Hon. Wm. Cornwallis. He then joined the Colossus 74, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris, and subsequently to the blockade of Cadiz was present and slightly wounded in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805. His appointments were afterwards – 12 Nov. 1805, to the Bittern 18, Capts. John Louis and Edw. Augustus Down, while commanding the boats of which vessel during a series of very active operations in the Mediterranean, he was again wounded – 2 March, 1808, as First Lieutenant, to the Delight 16, Capt. John Brett Purvis, cruising between Malta and Gibraltar – 15 Dec. 1809, in the same capacity, to the Leonidas 38, Capt. Anselm John Griffiths, under whom, after contributing to the reduction of Santa Maura in April, 1810, and commanding a division of gun-boats at the defence of Scylla, he proceeded to the East Indies – 1 March, l&ll, and 13 Nov. 1812, also as Senior, to the Actaeon brig, Capt. Bertie Cornelius Cator, and Iphigenia 36, Capts. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew and Andrew King, on the latter and Mediterranean stations – 24 Sept. 1813, to the Repulse 74, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, off Toulon – 23 Jan. 1814, to the Boyne 98, Capt. Geo. Burlton, with whom he was present in a severe and gallant action with the French 74-gun ship Romulus, under the batteries of Cape Brun and Cape Sepet, 13 Feb. following, and, as Senior Lieutenant, at the ensuing fall of Genoa – 14 Nov. 1814, again as First, to the Cornwallis 74, bearing the flag of his friend Sir Geo. Burlton, in the East Indies, whence he returned to England and was paid off, 26 Nov. 1816 – and, lastly, 15 Jan. 1819, to the Active 38, Capt. Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon, on the Halifax and Mediterranean stations. Having been on half-pay since 1821, he at length accepted the rank he now holds 13 July, 1837.
Commander Bague is a Magistrate for the co. of Middlesex. He married, 2 Dec. 1821, Miss Yarrow. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.