A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brady, William Hollinshed
BRADY. (Lieutenant; 1815. f-p., 1 7; h-p., 23.)
William Hollinshed Brady entered the Navy, 6 Dec. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Leonidas 38, Capt. Sir Jas. Dunbar, on the Mediterranean station, where he joined, in Nov. 1808, the Cumberland 74, Capt. Hon. Philip Wodehouse. On 26 Oct. 1809, he witnessed, as Midshipman, the self-destruction of the French line-of-battle ships Robuste and Lion, near Frontignan; and, on the night of 31 of the same month, he was slightly wounded while serving in the boats at the capture and destruction – under a hot fire from the batteries in the Bay of Rosas, and in face of a resistance from the various crews productive of a loss to the British of 15 men killed and 55 wounded – of the store-ship Lamproie, of 16 guns and 116 men, with three other armed vessels, and seven sail of merchantmen.[1] He continued to be very actively employed in the Cumberland, under the command of Capt. Thos. Baker, in the North Sea and in escorting valuable convoys to the West Indies and the Cape of Good Hope, until paid off in Aug. 1815 – a few months previous to which period, on 20 March, he had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, He afterwards, from 10 June, 1824, until 1827, served on the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot; and, since 10 June, 1842, has been employed as Admiralty Agent in a contract mail steam-vessel on the West India station. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1809, p. 1967.