A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bourne, George Stanway
BOURNE. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 19; h-p., 30.)
George Stanway Bourne entered the Navy, 23 April, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Inspector sloop, Capts. Chas. Lock and Geo. Sayer, stationed off the coast of Norway; attained the rating of Midshipman in Dec. 1799; and was for five years employed in that capacity in La Vésuve and Bold gun-brigs, Lieut.-Commanders Benj. Crispin and Wm. Chivers, on the Home station. After having acted, for a brief period, as Lieutenant of the Cruizer 16, Capt. John Hancock, he was promoted, 8 April, 1805, to a Sub-Lieutenancy in the Teazer gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Lewis Kerr. On 16 July following the latter vessel was unfortunately taken by a division of French gun-boats while becalmed off Granville, after a severe action; and from that date until May, 1814, Mr. Bourne, whose commission bears date 20 Nov. 1812, remained in captivity. He was afterwards employed, as First-Lieutenant, from 22 May, 1843, until 1846, of the San Josef 110, and Caledonia 120, commanded at Devonport by Capts. Fred. Wm. Burgoyne and Mauley Hall Dixon, but is at present on half-pay.