A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boulderson, Leslie
BOULDERSON. (Retired Commander, 1836. f-p., 15; h-p., 36.)
Leslie Boulderson entered the Navy, 10 Sept. 1796, as A.B., on board the Bellerophon 74, Capt Henry D’Esterre Darby; under whom, in the following month, he attained the rating of Midshipman, and was present, 1 Aug. 1798, at the battle of the Nile. He next served with the same officer, from May, 1800, to Sept. 1802 (in the course of which year he passed his examination), on board the Spencer 74; and on 3 Sept. 1803, was made Lieutenant from the Leviathan 74, flag-ship in the West Indies of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, into the Delft 64, Capt. Volant Vashon Ballard. His ensuing appointments were – in 1803 and 4, to the Shark sloop, Capt. Herring, again to the Leviathan, and to the Goliath 74, Capt. Chas. Brisbane – 15 Feb. 1805, to the Charwell 16, Capts. Phillp Dumaresq, Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, and Robt. Lisle Coulson, from which ship, after attending, we believe, the expedition to the Rio de la Plata, he invalided 10 March, 1808 – 1 Dec. following, to the Vulture sloop, Capt. Martin White, on the Jersey station – 22 Nov. 1811 (after two years of half-pay), to the Volcano bomb, Capts. John Griffith and Wm. Fairbrother Carroll, employed at the defence of Cadiz – 25 March, 1813, to the command of the Mary Ann hired transport, on the Mediterranean station, which he retained until 25 Sept. 1814 – and lastly 29 May, 1815, to the Erebus 16, Capts. David Ewen Bartholomew and Fras. Le Hunte lying in the Downs. He was paid off from the Erebus on 4 Sept. in the same year, and placed on the list of Retired Commanders 4 May, 1836. Agents – Messrs. Chard.