A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burch, Isaac
BURCH. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 13; h-p., 31.)
Isaac Burch (b) is only son of the late Isaac Burch, Esq., of Exmouth, Lieutenant R.N. (1800.)
This officer entered the Navy, 14 July, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal Sovereign 100, Capts. Rich. Curry and Pulteney Malcolm, stationed in the Channel; attained the rating of Midshipman in Aug. of the same year; and afterwards accompanied Capt. Malcolm into the Kent and Renown 74’s. In May, 1805, he became attached, with Sir Rich. John Strachan, to the Caesar 80, and, on 4 Nov. following, he assisted at the capture of four French line-of-battle ships, escaped from Trafalgar; after which he visited the Chesapeake in pursuit of a squadron under M. Willaumez. We subsequently, in 1809, find him present, in the same ship, under Capt. Chas. Richardson, at the reduction of three heavy French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, as also of the shipping in Basque Roads, and in the expedition to Flushing; and, under Capt. Wm. Granger, serving off Lisbon in 1810. On 12 Aug. in the latter year he rejoined Sir R. J. Strachan in the St. Domingo 74, employed in the North Sea, and, on afterwards proceeding to North America with the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren, he commanded one of that ship’s boats at the capture of three privateers in the Rappahannock river, and in the attack on Craney Island, Hampton. Mr. Burch, who had passed in 1810, was next appointed, 20 Nov. 1813, Acting-Lieutenant of the Thistle 12, Capts. Jas. Kearny White and Jas. Montagu, in which vessel he remained until Jan. 1814, when he was confirmed into La Nymphe 38, Capt. Hugh Pigot, by commission ante-dated to 11 June, 1814. While in the Thistle he took an active part in all the boat and other operations in the Chesapeake, including those against Washington and Baltimore, and also attended the expedition to New Orleans. He haa been on half-pay since 23 Aug. 1815.
Lieut. Burch married Mary, youngest daughter of the late Chas. Hutton Jarvoise, Esq., of Exeter.