A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brice, Nathaniel
BRICE. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
Nathaniel Brice was born 8 Sept. 1787.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 June, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Crescent 36, Capt. Wm. Grenville Lobb, on the Jamaica station, where he attained the rating of Midshipman 27 June, 1800. He afterwards served, in the Channel, with the same officer, in the St. George 98, and Isis 50; with Capt. Wm. Cumming in the Prince of Wales 98; with Capt. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin in the Latona 38; and, with Capt. Geo. Cockburn in the Captain 74. Shortly after his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 15 Aug. 1806, Mr. Brice obtained command of the Jackdaw schooner of 2 guns, in which vessel in Jan. 1807, he was unfortunately captured by a Spanish row-boat. Being, however, quickly retaken by the Minerva frigate, he joined, on 18 of the succeeding Aug., the York 74, Capt. Robt. Barton, in the West Indies; and was subsequently appointed – 4 Feb. 1808, to the Pelican 18, Capts. W. Ward, Isaac Hawkins Morrison, and Edw. Henry A’Court, under the first of whom he assisted in taking the island of Deseada on 30 March in the same year – 3 June, 1810, to the Aurora 28 – 29 Jan. 1811, to the Tweed 18, Capt. Symonds, stationed in the North Sea and off the coast of Africa – and, 14 Oct. 1813, to the Scamander 36, Capt. G. Heathcote, on Channel service. He continued unemployed from April, 1815; and was placed on the list of Retired Commanders 21 April, 1840.