A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Beatty, Daniel McNeale
BEATTY. (Lieut., 1806. f-p., 12; h-p., 28.)
Daniel M‘Neale Beatty entered the Navy, 24 March, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sappho of 18 guns and 120 men, Capt. Geo. Langford; in which sloop he escorted, as Midshipman, the Hon. Mr. Pierrepont, as Ambassador to the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus, then besieged by the French army in Stralsund – accompanied, in Aug. of the same year, the expedition to Copenhagen – and, on 2 March, 1808, assisted at the capture, off Flamborough Head, after a close action of half an hour, of the Admiral Yawl Danish brig, of 28 guns and 83 men – a service for which Capt. Langford was advanced to Post-rank. Mr. Beatty next served for two years on board the Zenobia 18, Capt. Alex. Rich. Mackenzie, during which period, in Aug. 1809, he was actively employed, with the light squadron under Sir Edw. Owen, in co-operation with the troops at the bombardment of Flushing. He then joined the Alexandria 32, Capts. John Quilliam and Robt. Cathcart, on the Baltic station, where he was twice engaged with the Danish gunboats, took part in several cutting-out affairs, and, while affording protection to convoys, came into frequent collision with the enemy’s row-galleys; and on removing, in Feb. 1813, to the Dannemark 74, Capt. Henry Edw. Reginald Baker, was employed, until the conclusion of the war, in blockading the Texel and Cherbourg squadrons, and at the Cape of Good Hope. For a few months in 1815 Mr. Beatty served as Master’s Mate in the Royal Sovereign 100, and Tonnant 80, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton, lying at Plymouth. He afterwards became attached, in July, 1816, to the Severn 40, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer; and for his conduct at the battle of Algiers, where he was wounded, was promoted on 16 Sept. in the same year to the rank of Lieutenant.[1] Since that period, with the exception of a brief employment in the Coast Guard, and a command, from 20 March, 1830, to Oct. 1831, and from 9 April, 1832, to Sept. 1833, of the Hornet and Swallow Revenue-vessels, Mr. Beatty has been unemployed.
He married in 1829.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1816, p. 1792.